trajectory while small loans outstanding continued to decline. Anecdotal evidence suggests that firms used trade credit to smooth … over cash flow problems. The current paper looks at recent trends in trade credit use by small businesses based on a recent … poll done by the Credit Research Foundation. The results highlight the importance of business to business credit for small …

opportunity to enforce debt contracts. We identify private-equity (PE) sponsored borrowers in the Shared National Credit Program … non-PE, PE-backed borrowers experience smaller reductions in credit commitment upon violation, suggesting lenders are … understanding heterogeneity in debt contract enforcement and credit constraints faced by distressed borrowers with financial …

This paper examines the mechanism through which banking sector distress affects the availability of credit. We use the … Commerce regarding the availability of credit, and examine which aspects of the banking system collapse affected credit … availability as indicated by the survey. A number of scholars have posited different ways that bank distress constrained credit …

Our paper studies the role of the collateral channel for bank credit using confidential bank-firm-loan data. We … higher growth in bank lending with higher sensitivities for more credit constrained firms. Higher real estate values boost …

distances between firms and their credit suppliers. While their data only cover through 1993, they conjecture that the pace of … higher credit quality firms and firms with more experienced ownership realizing greater gains in distance than other firms … of either lines of credit or multiple types of credit, distances increased very little or not at all during the decade …

This paper presents empirical evidence on the effect of banks' financial position on credit growth using a sample of 29 … most important predictor of credit growth in the current year. The relationship between capital and credit growth is non … (decrease) in capital is associated with an increase (decrease) of 0.8 (0.3) percentage points in credit growth upon impact and …

We explore the structural drivers of bank and nonbank credit cycles using an estimated medium-scale macro model that … potentially drive bank and nonbank credit growth. We find that sectoral shocks affecting the balance sheets of entrepreneurs who … borrow from the financial sector are important for the business cycle frequency fluctuations in bank and nonbank credit …

countries experiencing systemic banking crises on profitability, credit, and the performance of borrower firms. Crisis exposures … reduce bank returns and tighten credit conditions for borrowers, constraining investment and growth. The effects are larger …