Arbeitspapier

Firm financing and public support measures during the pandemic

This paper studies Danish non-financial firms' debt financing decisions during covid-19 with a focus on the impact of government support measures. The growth in credit from banks and mortgage banks to firms has been modest during the pandemic, and many firms reduced their debt level in the initial phases. Firms that were more exposed to the pandemic had higher debt growth than other firms. That was in particular the case for those with weaker pre-pandemic balance sheets. Public liquidity measures such as deferred tax and VAT payments served as a substitute for more traditional debt funding sources during the pandemic. There are indications that firms that were weaker even before the pandemic have received a disproportionately high share of tax and VAT loans. These results suggest that there may be substantial costs and risks associated with such support measures. We find no differences in debt developments between firms receiving and those not receiving benefits from the wage and fixed cost compensation schemes.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers ; No. 184

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Corporate Finance and Governance: General
Crisis Management
Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: Firm
Thema
Economic activity and employment
public financesand fiscal policy
financial assets and balances

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Julin, Ida Rommedahl
Kuchler, Andreas
Otte, Alexander Meldgaard
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Danmarks Nationalbank
(wo)
Copenhagen
(wann)
2021

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Julin, Ida Rommedahl
  • Kuchler, Andreas
  • Otte, Alexander Meldgaard
  • Danmarks Nationalbank

Entstanden

  • 2021

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