This paper studies the implications of perceived default risk for aggregate output and productivity. Using a model of … credit across firms with heterogeneous productivity. Further, we find that these losses accounted for over half of the … productivity fall between 2008 and 2009, and persisted for smaller (although not larger) firms. …

This paper studies the implications of perceived default risk for aggregate output and productivity. Using a model of … credit across firms with heterogeneous productivity. Further, we find that these losses accounted for over half of the … productivity fall between 2008 and 2009, and persisted for smaller (although not larger) firms. …

This paper studies the implications of perceived default risk for aggregate output and productivity. Using a model of … credit across firms with heterogeneous productivity. Further, we find that these losses accounted for over half of the … productivity fall between 2008 and 2009, and persisted for smaller (although not larger) firms …