Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups and the Propagation of Credit Supply Shocks

Using business registry data from China, we show that internal capital markets in business groups can propagate corporate shareholders’ credit supply shocks to their subsidiaries. An average of 16.7% local bank credit growth where corporate shareholders are located would increase subsidiaries invest...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shi, Yu
Other Authors: Townsend, Robert, Zhu, Wu
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2019
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02925nmm a2200685 u 4500
001 EB001892523
003 EBX01000000000000001055670
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 200301 ||| eng
020 |a 9781498314411 
100 1 |a Shi, Yu 
245 0 0 |a Internal Capital Markets in Business Groups and the Propagation of Credit Supply Shocks  |c Yu Shi, Robert Townsend, Wu Zhu 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2019 
300 |a 39 pages 
651 4 |a China, People's Republic of 
653 |a Credit 
653 |a Asset valuation 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Capital markets 
653 |a Money 
653 |a International Financial Markets 
653 |a Institutional Arrangements 
653 |a Asset-liability management 
653 |a Bank credit 
653 |a Organization of Production 
653 |a Economic theory 
653 |a Financial Risk Management 
653 |a Supply and demand 
653 |a Institutional Investors 
653 |a Shadow Economy 
653 |a Pension Funds 
653 |a Stocks 
653 |a Economic Theory 
653 |a Monetary economics 
653 |a Financial institutions 
653 |a Formal and Informal Sectors 
653 |a Financial Instruments 
653 |a Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General 
653 |a Capital market 
653 |a Supply shocks 
653 |a General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) 
653 |a Economic theory & philosophy 
653 |a Asset and liability management 
653 |a Non-bank Financial Institutions 
653 |a Investments: Stocks 
653 |a Prices 
653 |a Agriculture: Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis 
653 |a Investment & securities 
653 |a Money and Monetary Policy 
653 |a Finance: General 
700 1 |a Townsend, Robert 
700 1 |a Zhu, Wu 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781498314411.001 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2019/111/001.2019.issue-111-en.xml?cid=46882-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a Using business registry data from China, we show that internal capital markets in business groups can propagate corporate shareholders’ credit supply shocks to their subsidiaries. An average of 16.7% local bank credit growth where corporate shareholders are located would increase subsidiaries investment by 1% of their tangible fixed asset value, which accounts for 71% (7%) of the median (average) investment rate among these firms. We argue that equity exchanges is one channel through which corporate shareholders transmit bank credit supply shocks to the subsidiaries and provide empirical evidence to support the channel