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KDI Journal of Economic Policy. Vol. 38, No. 3, August 2016, pp. 79-106

https://doi.org/10.23895/kdijep.2016.38.3.79

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The Effects of Financial Support Policies on Corporate Decisions by SMEs

CHANG WOO NAM

Author & Article History

Manuscript received 25 April 2016; revision received 26 April 2016; accepted 10 August 2016.

Abstract

This paper investigates the effectiveness of public credit guarantee programs and interest-support programs for SMEs (small and medium enterprises). First, assuming that there is an imperfect information structure in the SME loan market, we analyze how SME support financial programs affect the corporate decisions made by SMEs with regard to default or loan sizes. In addition, this paper theoretically computes the optimal levels of credit guarantee amounts and the interest-support spread under equilibrium with imperfect information in a competitive loan market. Second, the paper mpirically analyzes the continuous policy-treatment effect with the GPS (generalized propensity score) method. In particular, we consider the ratio of guaranteed debt to the total debt as a continuous policy treatment. The empirical results show that marginal effects of a credit guarantee on SMEs’ productivity, rofitability, and growth potential decrease with the ratio of guaranteed debt to the total debt. In addition, the average effect of a credit guarantee is maximized when this ratio is at 50% to 60%.

Keywords

Small and Mediumsized Enterprises, Information Asymmetry, Loan Market, Credit Guarantee, Generalized Propensity Score

JEL Code

G14, G18, G21, G28

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