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 … financial accounts data, it is estimated that, shortly before the onset of the financial crisis, just about 12% of loans to the …

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

We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the … methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the … growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is decomposed into bank, firm, industry and common shocks. Adverse bank shocks …

Using detailed data of all German banks, we find that banks which have suffered heavy credit losses reduce their … assumption of constant leverage. Weakly capitalized banks grant fewer new loans than other banks. We control for credit demand … using a new method, the construction of tailored hypothetical bank competitors. …

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 …

equilibrium elasticity of bank loan supply with respect to bank capital. Although the targeted elasticity is remarkably different …

In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … distributions reveals that it is the countries hit worst by the crisis - Greece and Spain - for which the between …