Banking credit to the private sector in Latin America has on average increased by 7 percent of GDP from primo 2004 to … ultimo 2011, with real credit in some countries growing by up to 20 percent per year. This paper documents and analyzes the … patterns of credit growth in 18 countries in Latin America and uses econometric methods to determine whether it is indicative …

euro area Bank Lending Survey to assess the effectiveness of macro-prudential policies in containing credit growth and … slowing down mortgage credit growth, and that the impact is transmitted mainly through price margins, the same banking channel …

borrowers in distress, and find that a negative shock to bank credit supply reduces firms' loan growth, investment, capital …-to-labor ratio, and productivity. The transmission from changes in credit supply to firm productivity relates to labor market …

This paper analyses the effect of asset prices on credit growth in France and tries to disentangle credit demand and … period, but without credit supply factors being singled out. By contrast, housing price growth has a significant effect … during periods of financial instability only, even after controlling for credit demand effects. These results show that …

distinguishes between credit to the household sector and to the corporate sector, we investigate the association between capital … inflows and credit growth. We find that non-FDI capital inflows boost credit growth and increase the likelihood of credit … booms in both household and corporate sectors. For household credit growth, the composition of capital inflows appears to be …

Countries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) experienced a credit boom-bust cycle in the last decade …. This paper analyzes the roles of demand and supply factors in explaining this credit cycle. Our analysis first focuses on a … large sample of bank-level data on credit growth for the entire CESEE region. We complement this analysis by five case …