Firm Leverage, Consumer Demand, and Employment Losses during the Great Recession

This article argues that firms’ balance sheets were instrumental in the transmission of consumer demand shocks during the Great Recession. Using micro-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau, we find that establishments of more highly levered firms experienced significantly larger employment losses i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mueller, Holger M., Giroud, Xavier Alexandre
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109071
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4620-4151