-and-soundness supervision—that is, for the purposes of calculating a bank’s regulatory capital. The argument is straightforward, although …

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 … in this paper, began declining during the first half of 2008 while credit contraction began steeply increasing only …

This paper proposes a model of international trade with capital accumulation and financial intermediation. This is … achieved by embedding the Melitz (2003) model into an incomplete-markets neoclassical framework with an endogenous credit … firms’ net worth and capital stocks. We use the model to examine the differential effects of financial and non …

This paper recognizes two main factors that cause the capital requirement to affect the weighted average cost of … capital and hence the investment behavior of banks: underpriced debt resulting from the deposit insurance and information … information asymmetry, equity financing is expensive. This paper finds that banks constrained by the tightened capital requirement …

crisis and show their unusual non-resiliency, which depends in part on the global nature of the economic recession, but also … capital that occurred in the source countries during the crisis. …

violate either the letter or spirit of the law by lending to undercapitalized banks? 2) Did Federal Reserve credit constitute … statutory limits during the recent financial crisis, recession and recovery periods. In most cases, the number of days that … Federal Reserve credit was extended to an undercapitalized or critically undercapitalized depository institution was …