Financial Constraints, Productivity, and Investment: Evidence from Lithuania

Author/Editor:

Karim Foda ; Yu Shi ; Maryam Vaziri

Publication Date:

December 9, 2022

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This paper studies the relation between firms' access to finance, labor productivity and investment using Lithuanian firm-level data from 2000–2018. To do so, we construct a measure of financial constraints. We estimate that, given firm characteristics, removing these constraints can improve average productivity and investment of firms in Lithuania by 0.51 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively. Our results further suggest that policies targeting firm age and size together will be more effective in mitigating the impact of financial constraints as the relationship between firm age and size with financial constraints exhibits non-linearities.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2022/249

Subject:

Frequency:

regular

English

Publication Date:

December 9, 2022

ISBN/ISSN:

9798400227332/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA2022249

Pages:

26

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