Credit Allocation under Economic Stimulus: Evidence from China

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Lin William Cong

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Haoyu Gao

Renmin University of China

Jacopo Ponticelli

Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management; NBER

Xiaoguang Yang

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS)

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Date Written: November 1, 2018

Abstract

We study credit allocation across firms and its real effects during China's economic stimulus plan of 2009-2010. We match confidential loan-level data from the 19 largest Chinese banks with firm-level data on manufacturing firms. We document that the stimulus-driven credit expansion disproportionately favored state-owned firms and firms with lower average product of capital, reversing the process of capital reallocation towards private firms that characterized China's high growth before 2008. We argue that implicit government guarantees for state-connected firms become more prominent during recessions and can explain this reversal.

Keywords: Misallocation, Reallocation, Banking, Growth, Firm Investment, Employment

JEL Classification: G30, O16, O23

Suggested Citation

Cong, Lin and Gao, Haoyu and Ponticelli, Jacopo and Yang, Xiaoguang, Credit Allocation under Economic Stimulus: Evidence from China (November 1, 2018). Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 17-19, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2862101 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2862101

Lin Cong

Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management ( email )

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Haoyu Gao

Renmin University of China ( email )

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Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management ( email )

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Xiaoguang Yang

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS) ( email )

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China

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