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Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms: Lessons from Firm -Level Cross Country Panel Data.” Mimeo (2006)
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@MISC{Fally06creditconstraints,
author = {Thibault Fally and Stefano Scarpetta},
title = {Credit Constraints as a Barrier to the Entry and Post-Entry Growth of Firms: Lessons from Firm -Level Cross Country Panel Data.” Mimeo},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creative destruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping this process, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms ’ decision to enter, to expand if successful and to exit if competition becomes unbearable. In this paper, we focus on the effects of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successful new businesses. Drawing from harmonized firm-level data for 16 industrialized and emerging economies, we find that access to finance matters most for the entry of small firms and in sectors that are more dependent upon external finance. This finding is robust to controlling for other potential entry barriers (labor market regulations and entry regulations). On the other hand, financial development has either no effect or a negative effect on entry by large firms. Access to finance also helps new firms expand if successful. Both private credit and stock market capitalization are important for promoting entry and post entry growth of firms. Altogether, these results suggest that, despite significant progress over the past decade, many countries, including those in Continental Europe, should improve their financial markets so as to get the most out of creative destruction, by encouraging the entry of new (especially small) firms and the post-entry growth of successful young businesses.
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post-entry growth credit constraint creative destruction financial development new firm major role financial market labor market regulation private credit large firm small firm successful young business continuous process post entry growth market force many country potential entry barrier advanced market economy policy setting continental europe external finance entry regulation significant progress negative effect technological development firm decision successful new business stock market capitalization firm-level data past decade
