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Firm subsidies, financial intermediation, and bank risk / Aleksandr Kazakov, Michael Koetter, Mirko Titze, Lena Tonzer
VerfasserKazakov, Aleksandr ; Koetter, Michael ; Titze, Mirko ; Tonzer, Lena
ErschienenHalle (Saale), Germany : Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) - Member of the Leibniz Association, [27. Januar 2022]
Umfang1 Online-Ressource (III, 47 Seiten, 5,57 MB) : Diagramme
SpracheEnglisch
SerieIWH-Diskussionspapiere ; 2022, no. 2 (January 2022)
Schlagwörterbank stability / financial intermediation / government subsidies
URNurn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-145994 
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We study whether government subsidies can stimulate bank funding of marginal investment projects and the associated effect on financial stability. We do so by exploiting granular project-level information for the largest regional economic development programme in Germany since 1997: the Improvement of Regional Eco-nomic Structures programme (GRW). By combining the universe of subsidised firms to virtually all German local banks over the period 1998-2019 we test whether this large-scale transfer programme destabilised regional credit markets. Because GRW subsidies to firms are destabilised at the EU level we can use it as an exogenous shock to identify bank responses. On average firm subsidies do not affect bank lending but reduce banks’ distance to default. Average effects conflate important bank-level heterogeneity though. Conditional on various bank traits we show that well capita-lised banks with more industry experience expand lending when being exposed to subsidised firms without exhibiting more risky financial profiles. Our results thus indicate that stable banks can act as an important facilitator of regional economic development policies. Against the backdrop of pervasive transfer payments to mitigate Covid-19 losses and in light of far-reaching transformation policies requiredto green the economy our study bears important implications as to whether and which banks to incorporate into the design of transfer programmes.