FRIC/Finance Seminar with Tobias Berg, Bonn University

FRIC Center for Financial Frictions and the Department of Finance are proud to announce the upcoming seminar with Tobias Berg, Bonn University.

Tobias Berg will present 

Got rejected? Real effects of not getting a loan

ABSTRACT
Using a lender cut-off rule that generates plausibly exogenous variation in credit supply, I analyze real effects of loan rejections in a sample of small and medium-sized enterprises. I find that loan rejections reduce asset growth, investments, and employment, and these effects are concentrated among low liquidity firms. Precautionary savings motives aggravate real effects: firms whose loan applications got rejected increase cash holdings and cut non-cash assets in excess of the requested loan amount. These results point to the amplifying effect of precautionary savings motives in the transmission of credit supply shocks.