Garrick Blalock, Cornell University Paul Gertler, University of California, Berkeley David Levine, University of California, Berkeley Investment Following a Investment Following a Financial Crisis: Does Foreign Financial Crisis: Does Foreign Ownership Matter Ownership Matter
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Garrick Blalock, Cornell UniversityPaul Gertler, University of California, BerkeleyDavid Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Investment Following a Financial Investment Following a Financial Crisis: Does Foreign Ownership Crisis: Does Foreign Ownership
MatterMatter
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Financial Crises are Pervasive
• Last decade has had annually: – Mexico– East Asia– Russia– Turkey– Latin America (more than once)
• Two elements: – Large currency devaluations– Financial sector meltdowns
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Crisis reduces investment for most firms
• Investment falls due to:– Fall in domestic demand – Banking crisis
• Reduced credit supply• Uncertainty about borrowers’ creditworthiness,
value of collateral
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Both devaluation & credit affect exporter investment• On the one hand: Exporters & those
who compete with imports should invest.
• Bank failures may impede investment.
• Back to the first hand: Foreign affiliates may be able to use internal or foreign credit markets.
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Foreign Advantages to Credit Access
• Parent company has access to internal funds.– And good information on
creditworthiness of subsidiary.• Western accounting increases
transparency– May raise access to overseas funds.
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We observe less investment after a crisis.
Question 1: Do liquidity constraints contribute to lower investment?
Question 2: Does foreign ownership avoid the liquidity constraints?
We address these question for the Indonesian financial crisis of 1997-1998
What explains post-crisis investment
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Prior literature
• Lots of studies show crises lower investment but some competitiveness effects for exporters (Aguiar 2002, Forbes 2002)
• Lots of studies show liquidity constraints sometimes matter (Fazzari, Hubbard & Peterson 1988; Bernanke & Gertler 1989; Hoshi, Kashyap & Scharfstein 1991; Hubbard 1998)
• Not conclusive if liquidity constraints matter in a crisis--as opposed to lower demand (Aghion, Bachetta & Banergee 2000; Aquiar 2002; Bleakley & Cohen 2002; Desai, Foley & Forbes 2003)
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Presentation Outline
• The institutional setting
• Data and measurement• Empirical strategy• Results• What have we learned?
• Why Indonesia?• Review of crisis
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Why Indonesia?
• Largest real currency devaluation in recent history• Both a currency crisis and a banking crisis:
– banks closed – new credit issued fell by half
• Crisis unanticipated, even after Thai Baht devaluation
• Time-series data on large number of domestic and foreign manufacturing firms before and after crisis
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Indonesia suffered massive currency devaluation in 1997-1998
July 1997 Thai Baht floated
August 1997 Rupiah band eliminated, currency plunges
November 1997 16 banks closed, more promised, deposits not guaranteed, initial IMF agreement reached
December 1997 Almost half of all bank deposits withdrawn
January 1998 Indonesia Bank Reconstruction Agency formed, deposits guaranteed
May 1998 New IMF agreement, rioting, Suharto resigns
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Exchange rate vs. urban prices
2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
16,000
Jan-97 Jan-98 Jan-99 Jan-00100
120
140
160
180
200
220
Rupiah/$
UrbanCPI
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Implications for firm investment prospects
Real price of non-tradable inputs falls dramatically: labor-intensive exporters should benefit greatly
Many firms highly leveraged with foreign debt now much more costly to repay
Few were hedged because history of gradual rupiah float
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Implications for firm borrowing
• Poor transparency and corruption made monitoring of borrowers difficult in crisis
• Suharto resignation devalued many business relationships
• Run on banks sharply reduced available credit• Even state-run banks vulnerable to closing if new
reserve requirements not met
Question: Were foreign affiliates largely exempt from these problems?
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Presentation Outline
• The institutional setting
• Data and measurement
• Empirical strategy• Results• What have we learned?
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Indonesian Data
Annual manufacturing census, 1990-2000:– ~20,000 factories with more than 20 workers– Measures of output, capital, labor, materials,
exports, and foreign equity
Price deflators:– WPI for output– Mix of building, machinery, and vehicle prices for
capital
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Presentation Outline
• The institutional setting• Data and measurement
• Empirical strategy
• Results• What have we learned?
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Two-stage Identification
• Compare post-crisis outcomes between Indonesian exporters and non-exporters
– H1: Exporters should profit, hire workers, and invest in the absence of constraints
• Compare post-crisis outcomes between Indonesian exporters and foreign exporters
– H2: Both foreign and domestic exporters should expand in absence of liquidity constraints
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Estimated Outcomes
Value added Labor: variable input relatively easy to finance
through cash flowCapital: land, machinery, vehicles, and other
fixed assets more likely to need external financing
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Identification Strategy
• Control for firm and industry heterogeneity– Use plant fixed effects– Estimate by industry
• Avoid using 1997 and 1998 data– Reported values hard to interpret with 100%
inflation within the year.– Use 1994-1996 as pre-crisis and 1999-2000 as
post-crisis
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Identification Strategy• Avoid reliance on first difference in capital
– Difficult to separate changes in capital asset holdings from changes in capital asset valuations
– Use differences in differences model• Control for firm debt leverage
– Denomination of debt to extent possible• Preserve sample size
– Balance sheet information needed to calculate marginal Q available for only a few firms
• Check for time trends and heterogeneous treatment effects
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Other identification issues
• Sunk cost to becoming an exporter so pre-crisis exporting behavior good predictor of potential devaluation benefit– Less than 2% of pre-crisis non-exporters become exporters
• Many foreign affiliates owned by Asian parents– Many Singaporean and Korean firms– Biases against benefits of foreign ownership
• Political hazards could deter investment– Unclear if severity of hazard varies by ownership– Ethnic-Chinese businesses targeted by riots
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Specification
On the population of domestic firms
On the population of exporting firms
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Presentation Outline
• The institutional setting• Data and measurement• Empirical strategy• Results