TY  - BOOK
AU  - Medina,Leandro
TI  - Spring Forward or Fall Back? The Post-Crisis Recovery of Firms
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1475524730 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Competitiveness
KW  - imf
KW  - Corporate Performance
KW  - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
KW  - Firm Resilience
KW  - General
KW  - Leverage
KW  - Bulgaria
KW  - Canada
KW  - Korea, Republic of
KW  - Romania
KW  - Sri Lanka
N2  - This paper studies corporate performance in the aftermath of the global crisis by examining 6,581 manufacturing firms in 48 developed and developing countries in 2010, identifying factors of resilience as well as vulnerability. Based on a cross-sectional analysis, the results show that pre-crisis leverage and short-term debt have had negative effects on the speed of the recovery, while asset tangibility has had positive effects. The negative effect of leverage is non-linear, being particularly strong in firms with high pre-crisis leverage. Furthermore, the effects are different for advanced and emerging market economies. The paper also shows that the macroeconomic framework critically matters for firm growth. In particular, in countries that have allowed the exchange rate to depreciate, firms have had a faster recovery in sectors highly dependent on trade
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