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The banks that said no: the impact of credit supply on productivity and wages

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  • Franklin, Jeremy
  • Rostom, May
  • Thwaites, Gregory

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This paper estimates the effects of changes in bank credit supply on the real economy. We use UK firm-level data around the global financial crisis and information on pre-existing bank lending relationships to isolate exogenous credit supply shocks. We find some evidence that contractions in credit supply substantially reduce labour productivity, wages, and capital per worker within firms, and increase the chance firms will fail. Our results have implications for the welfare costs of financial crises, and for the costs of policy measures affecting credit supply at other times.

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  • Franklin, Jeremy & Rostom, May & Thwaites, Gregory, 2019. "The banks that said no: the impact of credit supply on productivity and wages," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 100543, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    banks; credit supply; firm behaviour; productivity;
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    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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