Macroeconomic and Financial Consequences of the Post-Crisis Government-Driven Credit Expansion in Brazil

Marco Bonomo, Ricardo Brito () and Bruno Martins
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Francisco Grippa () and Adrian Alejandro Armas

No 6827, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: Government-driven credit played an important role in countervailing the private credit crunch in Brazil during the recent financial crisis. However, government credit concessions continued to expand after the economy recovered. This paper investigates some important features of this expansion using a huge repository of loan contracts between banks and firms, composing an unbalanced panel of almost 1 million firms between 2004 and 2012. The results show that larger, older and less risky firms have benefited most from the government-sponsored credit expansion. Additionally, although higher access to earmarked credit tends to lead to higher leverage, the effect on investment appears to be insignificant for publicly traded firms. Since interest rates on earmarked loans are lower than market interest rates, firms with higher access to this type of loan tend to lower the cost of debt.

Keywords: State ownership of banks; Investment; Crisis management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 H1 L3 O16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03
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