credit market integration across jurisdictions impact the desirability of a currency union. We show that when those … impediments induce a higher cost for banks to manage cross-border credit compared to domestic credit, welfare may not be maximal …

This study attempts to distinguish, in the impact on credit in France, between the effects of stock market shocks … positive credit gap but it was not entirely offset in 2004. …

Due to the unobservability of the new credit production, most of the empirical loan market studies use, instead, the … observable credit stock. This substitution has been pointed out to be likely to generate biases (e.g. see Lown and Peristiani …

This paper shows that, with pre-set price and capital decisions of firms facing uncertainty and credit rationing, price …

Due to the unobservability of the new credit production, most of the empirical loan market studies use, instead, the … observable credit stock. This substitution has been pointed out to be likely to generate biases (e.g. see Lown and Peristiani …

With the Euro Area context in mind, we show that currency arrangements impact on credit available through default … incentives. To this end we build a symmetric two-country model with money and imperfect credit market integration. Differences in … credit market integration are captured by variations in the cost for banks to grant credit for cross-border purchases. We …

demonstrate the efficiency of credit standards which constrain the households’ indebtedness. On average, credit risk tends to grow …’s growth and the ratios’ growth is not monotonic. Portfolio credit risk culminates in tranches close to the 100% LTV and the 35 …