Got Rejected? Real Effects of Not Getting a Loan
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Got Rejected? Real Effects of Not Getting a Loan
Date Written: September 16, 2016
Abstract
Using a lender cut-off rule that generates plausibly exogenous variation in credit supply, I analyze real effects of loan rejections in a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises. I find that loan rejections reduce asset growth, investments, and employment, and these effects are concentrated among low liquidity firms. Precautionary savings motives aggravate real effects: firms whose loan applications got rejected increase cash holdings and cut non-cash assets in excess of the requested loan amount. These results point to the amplifying effect of precautionary savings motives in the transmission of credit supply shocks.
Keywords: Credit supply, real effects, liquidity demand, precautionary savings
JEL Classification: G21, G32, J23
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