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default are sensitive to current economic conditions and housing markets. Credit scores and loan characteristics also play … important roles"--Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis web site …

aggregate commercial bank loans through the end of 2008? We use balance sheet data for the entire population of commercial banks … to construct quarterly gross credit flows (credit expansion and credit contraction series) for the U.S. banking system … during the period 1999:Q1-2008:Q4 and provide new evidence on changes in lending. We show that credit expansion, as defined …

innovation can be applied to closely related environments used elsewhere in the literature that study insurance and credit … markets under limited commitment and private information. The analysis demonstrates clearly how insurance, credit, and money …

This paper resuscitates the credit-cycle theory of Kiyotaki and Moore (1997) in a two-agent RBC model with conventional … preferences and standard neoclassical technologies. It is shown that small transitory shocks to credit demand (or supply) can … generate large, highly persistent, dampened cycles in aggregate output. Key to our results is the interaction between credit …