Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145584 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2016: Demographischer Wandel - Session: International Capital Flows No. F16-V1
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel und Hamburg
Abstract: 
Substantial research yields opposing conclusions regarding the effects of international capital flows on economic growth. However, microeconomic channels that help to explain these inconsistencies are to date underexplored. This paper overcomes intricate identification issues by using a comprehensive dataset that covers about 20,000 firm-year observations to study the effects of the exogenous fluctuations in European capital flows on bank lending and the real behavior of firms from 1995-2014. We find that higher capital inflows are associated with more loans to less profitable firms, thereby, impeding the creative economic destruction. Consequently, there is evidence for time-varying implications of foreign capital for economic growth.
JEL: 
F32
F43
G21
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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