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 …

A bank's decision on loan supply and capital structure determines its immediate bankruptcy risk as well as the future … availability of internal funds. These internal funds in turn determine a bank's future costs of external finance and future …-to-asset ratios, liquidity coverage ratios and regulatory margin calls on the dynamics of loan supply and bank stability. Only …

autoregres-sion (SVAR) framework, that, in response to an adverse financial shock, tangible in-vestment falls more than … intangible investment. This positive co-movement betweentangible and intangible investment as well as the relative resilience of … intangibleinvestment pose a challenge for the theoretical model. We show that investment-specific adjustment costs help in reconciling the …