relationship with their savings bank prior to applying for a loan, default significantly less than customers with no prior … borrower characteristics as well as internal and external credit scores. Our results suggest that relationships of all kinds …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We … estimate an extended set of elasticities of bank credit with respect to a series of productivity measures of firms. We focus …

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 …

How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks’ attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank’s risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks’ funding costs, and banks’ funding risks are reflected in bank lending rates …

bank credit conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …, pointing to a substitution with bank credit and to a diversification of corporate funding sources. Studying their ex …

policy period, change in banks’ competitive behaviour affected the bank lending channel and discouraged banks from taking …

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 …

economy. In our model, producers are financed by both bank debt and equity, and face a mix of systematic and idiosyncratic … macro-prudential policy is represented by a convex dependence of bank capital requirements on the quantity of … uncollateralized credit. We find that this kind of policy is more successful in suppressing equity price swings than moderating output …

change in NPL ratios tends to depress bank lending volumes, widens bank lending spreads and leads to a fall in real GDP …