Since bank credit lines are a major source of corporate funding, we examine the determinants of credit line usage with …

inclusion (together with some control variables) on some measures of financial stability, including bank non-performing loans … and bank Z-scores. We find some evidence that an increased share of lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …

inclusion (together with some control variables) on some measures of financial stability, including bank non-performing loans … and bank Z-scores. We find some evidence that an increased share of lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …

transact small volumes. Although this profile may raise some concerns regarding reputational risks for the central bank and …

transact small volumes. Although this profile may raise some concerns regarding reputational risks for the central bank and …

analyse the differential responses, to monetary policy changes, of bank lending by banks with different size, liquidity and … results are mostly against the existence of a bank-lending channel in the period under analysis. This result appears to be …

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 …

Mercantile Registry and the Bank of Spain Credit Registry (CIR) to classify firms according to their number of banking relations … importance of such groups in a European country. We control for reverse causality by treating bank relationships as endogenous …