Credit Supply Shocks and Prices: Evidence from Danish Firms

Renkin, Tobias; Züllig, Gabriel

doi:10.1257/mac.20220079

Abstract

We study the response of firms’ output prices to a cut in credit supply. We combine data on loans between Danish firms and banks with survey-based producer prices and transaction-based export unit values. Exploiting banks’ heterogeneous exposure to the global financial crisis, we show that loans to firms with relationships to exposed banks drop and lending rates increase. In response, firms raise prices by 3–5%. This effect is decreasing in the elasticity of firms’ demand but positive for most industrial production. Our results support the idea that firms use price increases to raise cash when external sources of liquidity dry up.

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Credit Supply Shocks and Prices: Evidence from Danish Firms

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