State-Owned Enterprises as Countercyclical Instruments Experimental Evidence from the Infrastructure Sector

This paper examines the effects of a negative macroeconomic shock on the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in infrastructure. It exploits the differential effects of a drastic fall in oil prices (in 2014-15) on SOEs in energy-rich countries relative to SOEs in non-energy-rich c...

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Main Author: Herrera Dappe, Matias
Other Authors: Musacchio, Aldo, Turkgulu, Burak, Pan, Carolina
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2022
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520 |a This paper examines the effects of a negative macroeconomic shock on the financial performance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in infrastructure. It exploits the differential effects of a drastic fall in oil prices (in 2014-15) on SOEs in energy-rich countries relative to SOEs in non-energy-rich countries, matching firms based on their fuel expense ratio. The results-based on a balanced sample using coarsened exact matching and a differences-in-differences estimation-indicate that fully owned SOEs (FSOEs) that suffered a negative macroeconomic shock performed worse than those that did not. FSOEs that suffered a shock also received large fiscal transfers from the government to cope with the shock for three years after the shock. Despite the transfers, they reduced their capital expenditures as a consequence of the shock