@techreport{NBERw17360,
 title = "From the Financial Crisis to the Real Economy: 
Using Firm-level Data to Identify Transmission Channels",
 author = "Stijn Claessens and Hui Tong and Shang-Jin Wei",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "17360",
 year = "2011",
 month = "August",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w17360",
 abstract = {Using accounting data for 7722 non-financial firms in 42 countries, we examine how the 2007-2009 crisis affected firm performance and how various linkages propagated shocks across borders. We isolate and compare effects from changes in external financing conditions, domestic demand, and international trade on firms’ profits, sales and investment using both sectoral benchmarks and firm-specific sensitivities estimated prior to the crisis. We find that the crisis had a bigger negative impact on firms with greater sensitivity to demand and trade, particularly in countries more open to trade. Interestingly, financial openness appears to have made limited difference.},
}