Financing conditions through the lens of euro area companies

Annalisa Ferrando and Sofia Gori

Economic Bulletin Boxes, 2022, vol. 8

Abstract: This box explores new indicators of the financing conditions faced by euro area companies, based on firm-level survey data. Drawing on the rich dataset provided by the survey on the access to finance of enterprises (SAFE), three synthetic indicators summarise how firms have perceived their financing conditions in the euro area since 2009. Overall, the indicators suggest there have been several important phases in firms’ perceptions of financing conditions, which relate closely to ECB monetary policy measures. The empirical analysis shows that, after the onset of the pandemic, firms’ perceptions of financing conditions played an increasingly important role in explaining their expectations of the future availability of bank loans. JEL Classification: D22, H32

Keywords: financing conditions; NFCs; Survey data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-01
Note: 235236
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