Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53136 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3650
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
During the recent financial crisis, euro area firms, and especially Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, have been reporting acute problems of access to external finance. Using firm-level replies to the SME survey on access to finance, we use two indicators of financing constraints based on perceptions on the one side and on experienced financing constraints on the other and run probit and multinomial regressions model to determine which firms', sectoral or national characteristics drove perceptions and experienced financial constraints during the recent financial turmoil. We find that perceptions of financing crunch was broadly based across firms but those firms who really experienced a credit crunch tended to be small and young, confirming the fact that SMEs tend to suffer more when credit standards are tightened.
Subjects: 
financial crisis
financing constraints
credit rationing
small and medium-sized enterprises
survey data
JEL: 
E22
G30
L11
O16
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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