Financing exports of goods: a constraint on Greek economic growth

Ioanna C. Bardakas ()
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Ioanna C. Bardakas: Bank of Greece

No 178, Working Papers from Bank of Greece

Abstract: This paper assesses the effect of financing conditions on exports of goods in Greece during the last decade. Controlling for reverse causality which is feasible with the Johansen multivariate cointegration technique (1988) we have adopted, we estimate a reduced form of exports showing the existence of a relationship between companies’ ability to access bank financing and exports of goods both in the long and in the short-run. Robustness is established by estimating alternative specifications producing comparable results using absolute or relative prices and allowing for cyclical effects. More specifically, we show that during an economic crisis (given that for large part of the sample period credit has been declining) a 10 percent drop in firm financing leads to a decline in export growth by 6 to 9 percent in the short-run and by 2 to 4 percent in the long-run. Additionally, a similar increase in bank financing during an economic recovery is expected to produce a 6 to 9 percent increase in exports a result which will lead to an approximate increase of 1 to 2 percent to current GDP and economic growth.

Keywords: Exports; bank financing; economic growth. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 F10 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24
Date: 2014-03
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