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Financial Shock Transmission to Heterogeneous Firms: The Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraint Channel

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  • Livia Chiţu
  • Magdalena Grothe
  • Tatjana Schulze
  • Ine Van Robays

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We study the heterogeneous impact of jointly identified monetary policy and global risk shocks on corporate funding costs. We disentangle these two shocks in a structural Bayesian Vector Autoregression framework and investigate their respective effects on funding costs of heterogeneous firms using micro-data for the US. We tease out mechanisms underlying the effects by contrasting traditional financial frictions arising from asset-based collateral constraints with the recent earnings-based borrowing constraint hypothesis, differentiating firms across leverage and earnings. Our empirical evidence strongly supports the earnings-based borrowing constraint hypothesis. We find that global risk shocks have stronger and more heterogeneous effects on corporate funding costs which depend on firms' position within the earnings distribution.

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  • Livia Chiţu & Magdalena Grothe & Tatjana Schulze & Ine Van Robays, 2023. "Financial Shock Transmission to Heterogeneous Firms: The Earnings-Based Borrowing Constraint Channel," IMF Working Papers 2023/196, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:2023/196
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    1. Lodge, David & Manu, Ana-Simona & Van Robays, Ine, 2023. "China’s footprint in global financial markets," Working Paper Series 2861, European Central Bank.

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