External financial dependence and firms' crisis performance across Europe

Peter Eppinger and Katja Neugebauer

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Abstract: How do financial market conditions affect real economic performance? Empirical investigations of this question have often relied on measures of external financial dependence (EFD) that are constructed using US data and applied to other countries under the assumption of a stable industry ranking across countries. This paper exploits unique, comparable survey data from seven European countries to show that correlations of EFD across countries are weak, casting some doubt on this assumption. We then use the novel survey-based EFD index to show that the global financial crisis had a disproportionately negative impact on the real performance of financially dependent firms. Further investigations highlight the importance of supply chains in propagating the credit shock.

Keywords: external financial dependence; financial constraints; financial crisis; firm performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D20 F14 G00 G10 G30 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2022-02-01
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Published in Empirical Economics, 1, February, 2022, 62(2), pp. 887 - 904. ISSN: 0377-7332

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Journal Article: External financial dependence and firms’ crisis performance across Europe (2022)
Working Paper: External financial dependence and firms' crisis performance across Europe (2021)
Working Paper: External financial dependence and firms' crisis performance across Europe (2017)
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