We study the contribution of loans, granted to different borrower groups, to economic activity in the USA over the … estimation of a large VAR through Bayesian techniques. Loans to households emerge as the most important driver of economic …

This paper uses fractional integration and cointegration methods to analyse the determinants of the amount of loans … gross investment as determinants of loans to NFCs. The forecasting accuracy of the FCVAR was also assessed by comparing it …

reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect business loans? While there is widespread belief that the real costs … of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …

, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations …

are on electricity-included property lease contracts causing them to face a marginal electricity price of zero. We use … exogenous variation in weather shocks to show that the largest firms on tenant-paid contracts use up to 14 percent less …