businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small …

Using confidential regulatory firm-bank-loan level data from the U.S., we document four new facts about the credit … market. First, private SMEs typically utilize all available bank credit which comprises their entire balance sheet debt …, compared to large listed firms who can switch between corporate bonds and drawing from credit lines. Second, SMEs borrow …

-performers drop. The magnitude of this difference implies that an individual lender's credit allocation choices matter for aggregate … larger loans based on prior performance is not efficient. Our results have important implications for credit expansion policy …

2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties where the largest banks had … a high market share, the aggregate flow of small business credit fell, interest rates rose, fewer businesses expanded …, unemployment rose, and wages fell from 2006 to 2010. While the flow of credit recovered after 2010 as other lenders slowly filled …

Does emergency credit prevent long-term financial distress? We study the causal effects of government-provided recovery … bankruptcy, increase employment and revenue, unlock private credit, and reduce delinquency. These effects, especially the … crowding-in of private credit, appear to reflect resolving uncertainty about repair. We do not find capital reallocation away …

sector; the impacts of access to credit and other financial services; the impacts of business training; barriers to hiring …