This paper analyzes the effects of the financial crisis on credit supply by using highly detailed data on bank … borrowers’ risk, by exploiting multiple lending. We find evidence of a contraction of credit supply, associated to low bank …' productivity and interest rates at bank-firm level. …

that, even when controlling for the standard economic variables that influence bank activity, a rise in the spread is …

GDP shocks owing to a different degree of bank capitalization. The effects on lending of shocks to bank capital that are … effects of the "bank lending channel" from those of the "bank capital channel" in the case of a monetary shock; it also … provides an explanation for asymmetric effects of GDP shocks on lending based on the link between bank capital and risk …

monetary policy does alter bank loan supply, with the effects most dependent on the liquidity of individual banks. Unlike in … the US, the size of a bank does generally not explain its lending reaction. We also show that the standard publicly …

We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new … ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators …. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the …

The entry of China into world markets has been one of the strongest recent shocks to world trade and advanced countries … increased import competition from China has affected firms� pricing strategies causing a reduction in the dynamics of prices …