Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204782 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
KOF Working Papers No. 447
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Zurich
Abstract: 
After the global financial crisis and during the European sovereign debt crisis, bank lending to companies in the euro area slowed down dramatically bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the ECB's quantitative easing programme in early 2015 that bank lending improved sustainably. The study analyses the impact of the ECB's Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) on the access to finance of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) using firm-level data of the Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE) and a fixed effects model. The analysis comprises several measures of financial access such as credit availability, financial constraints and interest rates. The micro level nature of the data allows to distinguish between aggregate and heterogeneous effects across firm size, age, sector and country. The ECB's government bond purchases improved financial access on the aggregate euro area level and particularly in the periphery of the euro area. Hence, countries which need the most stimulus benefit the most from the Public Sector Purchase Programme.
Subjects: 
Unconventional monetary policy
credit channel
bank lending
ECB
SME
JEL: 
E44
E51
E52
E58
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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