Firm Financing During Sudden Stops: Can Governments Substitute Markets?

Miguel Acosta-Henao, Andrés Fernández Martin, Patricia Gomez-Gonzalez and Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan

No 33283, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Using comprehensive administrative data on Chilean firms, we examine whether credit lines and government-backed credit guarantees mitigated the impact of the large sudden stop event during the pandemic—the abrupt withdrawal of international capital. Our analysis employs a regression discontinuity design to demonstrate that firms eligible for these programs increased their borrowing from domestic lenders at a relatively lower cost. By reducing the cost of domestic currency debt relative to foreign currency debt, these policies effectively lowered the relative cost of domestic capital in the short term. This reduction in borrowing costs is conditional on selection effects at both the firm and bank levels, where only policy-eligible firms benefit from the lower credit costs from the same lender that non-eligible firms also borrow from. An open economy model with heterogeneous firms and financial frictions helps explain our findings: government interventions eased the higher cost of capital during the sudden stop by relaxing firms’ domestic collateral constraints, which in turn reduced domestic financial intermediaries’ risk aversion and boosted the supply of domestic credit in the face of shrinking international capital flows.

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Date: 2024-12
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