which suggests that the bank loan to assets ratio for firms satisfying the requirements of the ECG program increased by 0.02602 after the program began.
This result is consistent with the view that credit availability was enhanced by the ECG program (Onoet al., 2013).
We also estimate interactive variables with the natural logarithm of the amount of bank loans in year t − 1 (column 2) and the ratio of bank loans to total assets in year t − 1 (column 3).
The estimated coefficients for the interactive variables for Guarantee × year dummy 2009 and ln (the amount of bank loans), and those for the bank loans ratio in year t − 1 are positive and statistically significant at the 1% level.
The ceiling on the credit guarantee program could represent a restriction for firms with a large amount of loans. This result suggests that these firms increased their bank loans following the start of the ECG program