“…Other works show that firms' activities are influenced by specific instruments such as employment policy (Thomas, 2007;Aeberhardt et al, 2011), trade policy (Mage-Bertomeu, 2006;Rieber & Tran, 2002; U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Small Business, 2012), tax policy (Fernandez-Villaverde et al, 2011;Valenduc, 2019), education policy (Maisonnave & Decaluwé, 2010), industrial policy (Carré & Levratto, 2009), monetary policy (Blot et al, 2017), etc. Monetary policy, for example, by facilitating access to credit contributes to the performance of firms through improved productivity and expected profitability of projects (Beck & Laeven, 2006).…”