This paper develops a model of equilibrium in the market for loans. It focuses on the effects on equilibrium of (i …

instruments which, if properly managed, perform better than either loans or grants taken in isolation. The core of the intuition …

This paper analyzes United States experience with foreign lending in the half-century from 1920. A first question … raised by this experience is what triggered the process of United States foreign lending. I conclude that lending was … loans to Central Europe and reconstruction of the gold standard system was needed to initiate long-term capital flows. A …

This paper uses a data-set including time series data on macroeconomic variables, loans, deposits and interest rates … studies while we uncover new facts on disaggregated loans and deposits. During the crisis the cyclical behavior of short term … interest rates, loans and deposits remain stable but we identify unusual dynamics of longer term loans, deposits and longer …

moving beyond entrepreneurial credit and offering consumer loans. But many practitioners and policymakers are skeptical about … administrative data on loan repayment. We find that the marginal loans produced measurable benefits in the form of increased … employment, reduced hunger, and reduced poverty. The marginal loans also appear to have been profitable for the lender. The …

foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom … of financial protectionism. After nationalisations, foreign banks reduced the fraction of loans going to the UK by about …," domestic (British) loans of a bank expressed as a fraction of its total loan activity. We also study effective short …