Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/297381 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper No. 2022-49
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
Do financial constraints amplify or dampen the transmission of monetary policy to the real economy? To answer this question, we propose a simple empirical strategy that combines (i) firm-level employment and balance sheet data, (ii) identified monetary policy shocks and (iii) survey data on financing activities. The key novelty of our approach is a new proxy for the likelihood of being credit constrained, which is constructed using survey data on realized outcomes of financing requests. Leveraging cross-sectional heterogeneity in the proxy and the sensitivity of employment to monetary policy shocks, we find that credit constraints amplify the transmission of monetary policy. In the aggregate, credit constraints account for roughly a third of the employment response. Our findings are consistent with a strong financial accelerator, whereby accommodative monetary policy has the indirect effect of improving the ability of firms to obtain credit.
Subjects: 
Credit and credit aggregates
Econometric and statistical methods
Firm dynamics
Labour markets
Monetary policy
JEL: 
E2
E3
E43
E52
G3
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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