Seminar

Hybrid seminar: The Impact of Firm-level Covid Rescue Policies on Productivity Growth and Reallocation

On Thursday December 8th 2022, Glenn Magerman (Université libre de Bruxelles) will give an online presentation titled: "The Impact of Firm-level Covid Rescue Policies on Productivity Growth and Reallocation." To attend this seminar, please send an e-mail to Simone Pailer (S.Pailer@cpb.nl). You will be registered at the reception or will receive a Webex-invitation via Outlook.

Date
December 8, 2022
Time
13:00 - 14:00
Location
Room 1 "Duinzaal" and online (Webex). To attend this seminar, please send an e-mail to Simone Pailer (S.Pailer@cpb.nl). You will be registered at the reception or will receive a Webex-invitation via Outlook
Presentation
Glenn Magerman (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Working language
English

We analyze the impact of Covid-19 rescue policies on both firm-level and aggregate productivity growth and reallocation. Using administrative data on the universe of firms’ subsidies in Flanders, we estimate the causal impact of these subsidies on firm-level outcomes. Firms that received subsidies saw a 7% increase in productivity, compared to firms that applied for, but did not obtain subsidies. Furthermore, the propensity to exit the market was 43% lower for treated firms. Aggregate productivity growth, a share-weighted sum of firms’ productivity evolutions, amounted to 6% in 2020. While within-firm productivity growth was similar for both subsidized and non-subsidized firms, there is a reallocation of market shares from subsidized firms to non-subsidized firms. These results suggest that Covid rescue policies helped firms to sustain and preserve productivity, while not obstructing allocative efficiency gains to non-subsidized firms.

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