unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit …) during the crisis, credit supply restrictions to firms in the Euro area and tighter standards for mortgage loans in the US …

The Euro area economic activity and banking sector have shown substantial fragility over the last years with remarkable … affected the transmission mechanism of the single Euro area monetary policy during the crisis until the end of 2011. The …

This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and … leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP growth. Notwithstanding the short history of the survey, the findings …