Le, Hai - In: Economies : open access journal 9 (2021) 4, pp. 1-26
Empirical evidence demonstrates that credit standards, including lending margins and collateral requirements, move in a … countercyclical movement in credit standards. Our analysis demonstrates that countercyclical fluctuations in credit standards work as … an amplifier of shocks to the economy. In particular, the existence of endogenous credit standards increases output …