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Export market risk and the role of state credit guarantees

  • Many countries offer state credit guarantees to support credit-constrained exporters. The policy instrument is commonly justified by governments as a means to mitigating adverse outcomes of financial market frictions for exporting firms. Accumulated returns to the German state credit guarantee scheme deriving from risk-compensating premia have outweighed accumulated losses over the past 60 years. Why do private financial agents not step in and provide insurance given that the state-run program yields positive returns? We argue that costs of risk diversification, liquidity management, and coordination among creditors limit the ability of private financial agents to offer comparable insurance products. Moreover, we suggest that the government’s greater effectiveness in recovering claims in foreign countries endows the state with a cost advantage in dealing with the risks involved in large export projects. We test these hypotheses using monthly firm-level data combined with official transaction-level data on covered exports of German firms and find suggestive evidence that positive effects on trade are due to mitigated financial constraints: State credit guarantees benefit firms that are dependent on external finance, if the value at risk which they seek to cover is large, and at times when refinancing conditions on the private financial market are tight.

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Author:Erdal YalcinORCiDGND, Inga Heiland
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:kon4-opus4-24640
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10368-020-00466-2
ISSN:1612-4804
eISSN:1612-4812
Parent Title (English):International Economics and Economic Policy
Volume:18
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Heidelberg
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Publication:2021
Release Date:2020/06/17
Tag:State export credit guarantees; Credit constraints; Financial frictions
Issue:1
First Page:25
Last Page:72
Note:
Original paper published: 02 June 2020; Correction: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10368-021-00497-3
Institutes:Fakultät Wirtschafts-, Kultur- und Rechtswissenschaften
DDC functional group:300 Sozialwissenschaften
Open Access?:Ja
Relevance:Peer reviewed Publikation in Master Journal List
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International