Small firms and domestic bank dependence in Europe’s Great Recession

Mathias Hoffmann, Egor Maslov and Bent Sorensen

No 397, ECON - Working Papers from Department of Economics - University of Zurich

Abstract: After the inception of the euro, the real economy in most member countries remained dependent on credit by domestic banks, which increasingly funded themselves through cross-border interbank funding. We find that this pattern of ‘double-decker’ banking integration exposed domestic banks to sharp declines in cross-border interbank lending during the eurozone crisis. As a result, domestic banks reduced lending which led to large declines in output in sectors with many small (bank-dependent) firms. We propose a quantitative small open economy model to account for these patterns and conclude that a global banking shock leading to a sudden stop in cross-border interbank lending in the eurozone is required to account for them.

Keywords: Small and medium enterprises; sme access to finance; banking integration; domestic bank dependence; interbank dependence; international transmission; eurozone crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F30 F36 F40 F45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-10
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