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Firm Dynamics and Financial Development / Cristina Arellano, Yan Bai, Jing Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arellano, Cristina.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15193.
- NBER working paper series no. w15193
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2009.
- Summary:
- This paper studies the impact of cross-country variation in financial market development on firms' financing choices and growth rates using comprehensive firm-level datasets. We document that in less financially developed economies, small firms grow faster and have lower debt to asset ratios than large firms. We then develop a quantitative model where financial frictions drive firm growth and debt financing through the availability of credit and default risk. We parameterize the model to the firms' financial structure in the data and show that financial restrictions can account for the majority of the difference in growth rates between firms of different sizes across countries.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2009.
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