Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European …. Enforceability within each village's centralized afternoon market ensures collateralization of credit in decentralized markets. In … the resulting equilibrium, money and credit coexist in decentralized markets if the use of credit is costly. Our analysis …

The recent financial crisis has put the spotlight on the rapid rise in credit which preceded it. In this paper, we … provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the credit boom and the macroeconomic context in which it developed. We find … economies in which it took place. We show that this type of credit and financial cycle is hard to reconcile with existing …

affects bank lending depends on the whether the banks are drawing on official sector liquidity facilities. Third, liquidity … heterogeneity in the balance sheet characteristics that affect banks’ responses to liquidity risk. Overall, bank balance sheet …

The US credit boom has been identified as one of the causes of the global financial crisis and the resulting debt … overhang is seen as the primary reason for the weak economic recovery. Most of the existing literature links the credit boom to … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the …

minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …

This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in … lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset …