Production and Financial Networks in Interplay: Crisis Evidence from Supplier-Customer and Credit Registers

57 Pages Posted: 22 Sep 2020

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José-Luis Peydró

Imperial College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

Gabriel Jiménez

Banco de España

Kenan Huremovic

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Enrique Moral-Benito

Banco de España; Charles III University of Madrid

Fernando Vega-Redondo

Bocconi University; Universidad de Alicante - Department of Economic Analysis; European University Institute

Date Written: September 1, 2020

Abstract

We show that bank shocks originating in the financial sector propagate upstream and downstream along the production network and triple the impact of direct bank shocks. Our identification relies on the universe of both supplier-customer transactions and bank loans in Spain, a standard operationalization of credit-supply shocks during the 2008-09 global crisis, and the proposed theoretical framework. The impact on real effects is strong, and similarly so, when considering: (i) direct bank shocks to firms versus first-order interim contagion; (ii) first-order versus higher-order network effects; (iii) downstream versus upstream propagation; (iv) firm-specific versus economy-wide shocks. Market concentration amplifies these effects.

Keywords: credit supply, networks, real effects of finance, shock propagation, Supply Chains

JEL Classification: D85, E44, E51, G01, G21

Suggested Citation

Peydro, Jose-Luis and Jimenez, Gabriel and Huremovic, Kenan and Moral-Benito, Enrique and Vega-Redondo, Fernando and Vega-Redondo, Fernando and Vega-Redondo, Fernando, Production and Financial Networks in Interplay: Crisis Evidence from Supplier-Customer and Credit Registers (September 1, 2020). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15277, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3696358

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Banco de España ( email )

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