Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/322361 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers No. 209
Publisher: 
Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This study investigates how credit to firms responds to an energy price shock by comparing the credit growth of similar firms with different energy intensities before and after the shock triggered by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Credit growth of energy-intensive firms declined by 8.75 percentage points. A large part of this decline stems from less risky firms drawing less on preexisting credit lines. Interest rate spreads for new loans rose for riskier firms. The results suggest that less risky firms reduced credit demand, whereas banks reduced supply of new loans to riskier firms.
Subjects: 
energy price shock
firm credit
credit register
firm heterogeneity
JEL: 
G21
G32
Q43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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