Hidden Reserves as an Alternative Channel of Firm Finance in a Major Developing Economy

Ibrahim Yarba

Working Papers from Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey

Abstract: This study analyses the argument that whether Turkish non-financial firms utilize any informal source of alternative funding during economic uncertainties over the last decade. This study is the first to explore the issue and provide some insights regarding how small and medium-sized enterprises do react to the financial constraint problem in such an economic environment. Both trend analysis and dynamic panel model estimations provide supporting evidence that Turkish non-financial firms have some reserves (e.g., owners’, relatives’ and/or friends’ personal wealth) that are utilized during the times of persistent stress and tightening of macroprudential policies. Most strikingly, this is the case for only small and medium-sized enterprises but not for large firms.

Keywords: Hidden reserves; Alternative firm financing channels; SME; Macroprudential policy; Uncertainty; Persistence of uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D21 D81 G18 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ara, nep-cfn, nep-ent and nep-fdg
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.tcmb.gov.tr/wps/wcm/connect/EN/TCMB+EN ... g+Paperss/2019/19-36 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:tcb:wpaper:1936

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Research and Monetary Policy Department, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sermet Pekin () and Ilker Cakar () and ().