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Banks, Firms, and Jobs

By Fabio Berton, Sauro Mocetti, Andrea F Presbitero, Matteo Richiardi

February 14, 2017

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Fabio Berton, Sauro Mocetti, Andrea F Presbitero, and Matteo Richiardi. Banks, Firms, and Jobs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

We analyze the employment effects of financial shocks using a rich data set of job contracts, matched with the universe of firms and their lending banks in one Italian region. To isolate the effect of the financial shock we construct a firm-specific time-varying measure of credit supply. The contraction in credit supply explains one fourth of the reduction in employment. This result is concentrated in more levered and less productive firms. Also, the relatively less educated and less skilled workers with temporary contracts are the most affected. Our results are consistent with the cleansing role of financial shocks.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Credit, Employment, Financial institutions, Labor, Labor force, Loans, Money

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Bank credit, Bank lending channel, Cleansing effect, Credit, Credit crunch, Credit supply index, Dependent variable, Employment, Employment agency, Employment decision, Financing constraint, Financing constraints, Firm cluster, Firm FE, Firm level, Global, Job contracts, Labor force, Loans, Quarter FE, Service sector, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    57

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2017/038

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2017038

  • ISBN:

    9781475579017

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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