Corporate Funding and the COVID-19 Crisis

Andrea Deghi, Dulani Seneviratne, Tomohiro Tsuruga and Jerome Vandenbussche

No 2021/086, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This paper assesses whether corporate liquidity needs in the G7 economies were met during the containment phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (February-June 2020) using various approaches to identify credit supply shocks. The pandemic crisis adversely affected nonfinancial corporate sector cash flows, generating liquidity and solvency pressures. However, corporate borrowing surged in March and into the second quarter, thanks to credit line drawdowns and unprecedented policy support. In the United States, the bond market was buoyant from the end of March onward, but credit supply conditions for bank loans and the syndicated loan market tightened. In other G7 economies, credit supply conditions generally eased somewhat across markets during the second quarter. Among listed firms, entities with weaker liquidity or solvency positions before the onset of COVID-19, as well as smaller firms, suffered relatively more financial stress in some economies in the early stages of the crisis. Residual signs of strain remained as of the end of June. Policy interventions, especially those directly targeting the corporate sector, had a beneficial effect on credit supply overall.

Keywords: Corporate funding; Corporate cash; Credit supply; Financial constraints; Loan guarantees; Central bank policies; Group of Seven economies; COVID-19; Economic crisis; firm liquidity vulnerability; supply condition; commercial paper Issuance; government liquidity support; credit market; Credit; Bonds; Syndicated loans; Currencies; Corporate bonds; Global; Europe; commercial paper; syndicated loan market; corporate bond bond market; high-liquidity-gap firm; credit supply condition; Group of Seven economy; pandemic crisis; solvency pressure; Securities markets; Bank credit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2021-03-19
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