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Local financial development and firm performance: Evidence from Morocco

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  • Fafchamps, Marcel
  • Schündeln, Matthias

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Combining data from the Moroccan census of manufacturing enterprises with information from a commune survey, we test whether firm expansion is affected by local financial development. Our findings are consistent with this hypothesis: local bank availability is robustly associated with faster growth for small and medium-size firms in sectors with growth opportunities, with a lower likelihood of firm exit and a higher likelihood of investment. Regarding the channel, the evidence suggests that, over the study period, access to credit was used by pre-existing Moroccan firms to mobilize investment funds, with some evidence that they were partly used towards reducing labor costs.

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Volume (Year): 103 (2013)
Issue (Month): C ()
Pages: 15-28

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Handle: RePEc:eee:deveco:v:103:y:2013:i:c:p:15-28
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Keywords: Manufacturing; Credit constraint; Firm size;

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  • O16 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Financial Markets; Saving and Capital Investment; Corporate Finance and Governance
  • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance

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  1. Breinlich, Holger & Ottaviano, Gianmarco & Temple, Jonathan, 2013. "Regional Growth and Regional Decline," CEPR Discussion Papers 9568, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
  2. Bagayev, Igor & Najman, Boris, 2014. "Money to fill the gap? Local financial development and energy intensity in Europe and Central Asia," MPRA Paper 55193, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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