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 …

banks in providing credit to smaller borrowers about whom information is least complete and, more generally, support the …

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 …

Information asymmetries are known in theory to lead to inefficiently low credit provision, yet empirical estimates of … to estimate welfare losses arising from asymmetric information in the market for online consumer credit. Building on … price distortions, we find only small overall welfare losses, particularly for high-credit-score borrowers …

-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 …

-employee literature. We construct firm-specific exogenous credit supply shocks and estimate their direct and indirect effects on real … activity using firm-specific measures of upstream and downstream exposure. Credit supply shocks have sizable direct and … crisis. In terms of mechanisms, trade credit extended by suppliers and price adjustments play a role in accounting for …

There is little evidence on how the large market for credit score improvement products affects consumers or credit … market efficiency. A randomized encouragement design on a standard credit builder loan (CBL) identifies null average effects … on whether consumers have a credit score and the score itself, with important heterogeneity: those with loans outstanding …

Standard economic theory says that unsecured, high-interest, short-term debt -- such as borrowing via credit cards and … transitory income shock of unemployment. Instead, individuals smooth their credit card debt and overdrafts by adjusting … consumption. We first use detailed longitudinal information on debit and credit card transactions, account balances, and credit …

We develop a tractable dynamic model of credit markets in which lending standards and the quality of potential … can amplify and prolong temporary downturns, affecting lending volume, credit spreads, and default rates. We characterize … constraints naturally incentivize tight lending standards, further amplifying shocks to credit markets …