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Reduced Cross-Border Lending and Financing Costs of SMEs

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Franziska Bremus, Katja Neugebauer

In: Journal of International Money and Finance 80 (2018), S. 35-58

Abstract

This paper investigates how the withdrawal of banks from their cross-border business impacted the borrowing costs of European firms since the crisis. We combine aggregate information on total and cross-border credit with firm-level survey data for the period 2010 - 2014. We find that the decline in cross-border lending led to a deterioration in the borrowingconditions of small firms. In countries with more pronounced reductions in cross-border credit inflows, the likelihood of a rise in firms’ external financing costs increased. This result is mainly driven by the interbank channel, which plays a crucial role in transmitting shocks to the real sector across borders.



JEL-Classification: F34;F36;G15;G21
Keywords: International banking, Firm finance, Credit constraints
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jimonfin.2017.09.006

Frei zugängliche Version: (econstor)
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200087

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