This paper assesses the usefulness of private credit variables and other macrofinancial and banking sector indicators …, using data for 23 EU Members States from 1982 Q2 to 2012 Q3. We find that in addition to credit variables, other domestic …

borrower characteristics as well as internal and external credit scores. Our results suggest that relationships of all kinds …

This paper aims to shed light on the characteristics and particularly the determinants of credit-less recoveries. After … building a dataset and documenting some stylised facts of credit-less recoveries in emerging market economies, this paper uses … panel probit models to analyse key determinants of credit-less recoveries. Our main findings are the following. First, our …

loan officers' compensation, banks' use of soft information in credit approval, and their lending standards. When … more competition, banks lower lending standards, may choose to disregard soft and use only hard information in their credit …

uncollateralized credit. We find that this kind of policy is more successful in suppressing equity price swings than moderating output …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … generations of entrepreneurs under complete and incomplete credit markets. Then, we exploit firm-level data for France, Germany … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We …

to activate macroprudential tools targeting excessive credit growth and leverage. To robustly select the key indicators … using credit to GDP gaps, credit to GDP ratios and credit growth rates, as well as real estate variables in addition to a …

We study how the consequences of violations of covenants associated with bank lines of credit to firms vary with the … financial health of lenders. Following a violation banks restrict usage of lines of credit by raising spreads, shortening … during the recent crisis. Banks in worse financial health are more likely to restrict access to credit lines following a …

This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … are more frequently discouraged from applying for bank credit and more likely to rely on informal finance. At the same … not driven by credit risk differences between female- and male-owned firms or by any idiosyncrasies in the set of …