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Did the Euro Crisis Affect Non-Financial Firm Stock Prices Through a Financial or Trade Channel?

By Stijn Claessens, Hui Tong, Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas

September 1, 2011

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Stijn Claessens, Hui Tong, and Igor Esteban Zuccardi Huertas. Did the Euro Crisis Affect Non-Financial Firm Stock Prices Through a Financial or Trade Channel?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

This paper analyzes through what channels the euro crisis has affected firm valuations globally. It examines stock price responses over the past year for 3045 non-financial firms in 16 countries to three key crisis events. Using pre-crisis benchmarks, it separates effects arising from changes in external financing and trade conditions and examines how bank and trade linkages propagated effects across borders. It finds that policy measures announced impacted financially-constrained firms more, particularly in creditor countries with greater bank exposure to peripheral euro countries. Trade linkages with peripheral countries also played a role, with euro exchange rate movements causing differential effects.

Subject: Asset prices, Banking, Exports, Financial crises, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Foreign currency exposure, International trade, Money, Prices

Keywords: Asset prices, Bank exposure, Debtor country, East Asia, Euro crisis, Europe, Euro-zone firm, Exports, Exposure to PEC, Financial channel, Firm Size, Foreign banks, Foreign currency exposure, Global, Non-financial firms, Stock price, Trade channel, Trade exposure, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    40

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/227

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011227

  • ISBN:

    9781463904951

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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