Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in …

growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and … medium enterprises in Brazil. Local credit supply shocks generate greater firm entry but also greater exit with no effect on …

We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks … branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core … conditions did not influence credit availability irrespective of the functional distance (i.e., the distance between bank branch …

bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry of crowdlending can induce a switching effect as well as a credit …

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

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …

question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …