.S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during … the 2022-2023 monetary tightening cycle extended less credit to firms. This spillover effect was stronger for available …

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 …

-constrained investors to take excessive risks. Ignored are unconstrained investors speculating on higher prices during credit booms. To … encouraged a bank/brokerage-credit-fueled stock-market bubble. The direct effect is a 25 cent increase in a stock's market …

A growing literature shows that credit indicators forecast aggregate real outcomes. While researchers have proposed … simple, frictionless, model explains empirical findings commonly attributed to credit cycles. Our key assumption is that … firms have heterogeneous exposures to underlying economy-wide shocks. This leads to endogenous dispersion in credit quality …

The market for corporate credit is characterized by significant seasonal variation, both in interest rates and the …

This paper develops a network model of interbank lending, in which banks decide to extend credit to their potential … literature on financial networks, we focus on how anticipation of future defaults may result in ex ante "credit freezes," whereby … banks refuse to extend credit to one another. We first characterize the terms of the interbank contracts and the patterns of …

light on the distributional consequences at both the individual and regional levels. We find that credit supply factors … are even more pronounced for young and middle-income borrowers who find themselves excluded from the credit market. Also …

develop a theory of the mechanism, provide empirical evidence, evaluate the ability of the quantitative theory to match the …