We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the …

Excessive credit creation by banks was at the root of the recent financial crisis. Nevertheless, micro … overoptimism causes excessive lending, subsequently yielding abnormal loan write-offs. We propose a new measure of excessive credit … growth known from macroeconomics to identify credit booms and test our model for German bank and bankportfolio level data …

lending can be explained by a shift in credit towards both export-intensive firms and small banks without foreign asset … exposure that have a higher share of exporting firms in their credit portfolio. We also find that German regions where these …

negatively related to credit spreads. Particularly during the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the subsequent European debt crisis …, lending was reduced and we observe that banks requested higher credit spreads. Of particular importance is that market …

credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

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 …

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 …

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