02075cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021425 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513564647 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Chen, Sophia. Small and Vulnerable : Small Firm Productivity in the Great Productivity Slowdown / Sophia Chen, Do Lee. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2020. 1 online resource (51 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We provide broad-based evidence of a firm size premium of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Europe after the Global Financial Crisis. The TFP growth of smaller firms was more adversely affected and diverged from their larger counterparts after the crisis. The impact was progressively larger for medium, small, and micro firms relative to large firms. It was also disproportionally larger for firms with limited credit market access. Moreover, smaller firms were less likely to have access to safer banks: those that were better capitalized banks and with a presence in the credit default swap market. Horseraces suggest that firm size may be a more important and robust vulnerability indicator than balance sheet characteristics. Our results imply that the tightening of credit market conditions during the crisis, coupled with limited credit market access especially among micro, small, and medium firms, may have contributed to the large and persistent drop in aggregate TFP. Mode of access: Internet Lee, Do. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2020/294 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2020/294/001.2020.issue-294-en.xml IMF e-Library