Burning Money? Government Lending in a Credit Crunch

Rafael Repullo, Jiménez, Gabriel, Peydró, José-Luis and Jesús Saurina
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Gabriel Jimenez and Jose-Luis Peydro

No 13267, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We analyze a small, new credit facility of a Spanish state-owned-bank during the crisis, using its continuous credit scoring system, firm-level scores, and credit register data. Compared to privately-owned banks, the state-owned bank faces worse applicants, softens (tightens) its credit supply to unobserved (observable) riskier firms, and has much higher defaults. In a regression discontinuity design, the supply of public credit causes: large positive real effects to financially-constrained firms (whose relationship banks reduced substantially credit supply); crowding-in of new private-bank credit; and positive spillovers to other firms. Private returns of the credit facility are negative, while social returns are positive.

Keywords: Real effects of public credit; Credit scoring; Credit crunch; Crowding-in; Adverse selection; State-owned banks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G01 G21 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10
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