The Impact of Financial Constaints on Firm Survival and Growth

Patrick Musso () and Stefano Schiavo

No 2007-37, Documents de Travail de l'OFCE from Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques (OFCE)

Abstract: We propose a new approach for identifying and measuring the degree of financial constraint faced by firms and use it to investigate the effect of financial constraints on firm survival and development. Using panel data on French manufacturing firms over the 1996-2004 period, we find that (i) financial constraints significantly increase the probability of exiting the market, (ii) access to external financial resources has a positive effect on the growth of firms in terms of sales, capital stock and employment, (iii) financial constraints are positively related with productivity growth in the short-run. We interpret this last result as the sign that constrained firms need to cut costs in order to generate the resources they cannot raise on financial markets.

Keywords: Financial constraints; Firm growth; Firm survival (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 G32 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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