Credit Stimulus, Executive Ownership, and Firm Leverage

We show that executive ownership is a significant driver of the demand for credit following credit expansion policies. Our focus on credit demand is in contrast to most studies that have focused on credit supply factors such as bank capital. Our identification exploits the large and unexpected Chine...

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Autores: Gete, Pedro, Chakraborti, Rajdeep, Dahiya, Sandeep, Ge, Lei
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:IE
Repositorio:Repositorio IE
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/3299
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4188
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/3299
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:China
Credit Policies
Executive Ownership
Leverage
53 Ciencias Económicas::5311 Organización y dirección de empresas
ODS 8 - Trabajo decente y crecimiento económico
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Sumario:We show that executive ownership is a significant driver of the demand for credit following credit expansion policies. Our focus on credit demand is in contrast to most studies that have focused on credit supply factors such as bank capital. Our identification exploits the large and unexpected Chinese credit expansion in 2008. This setting offers a unique advantage as in 2008 the Chinese government had almost complete control over the banking sector and it directed the banks to increase credit supply. Thus, in this setting, demand, rather than supply, largely drives the observed changes in firms’ borrowing. We provide extensive robustness tests to validate our results.