due to bank funding shortages from the sovereign debt crisis were a major factor behind the lending slowdown in late 2011 …

examines one particular channel at work: the supply of credit. It presents a model in which a bank, even if managed by risk …

Determinants of bank-level credit growth in Saudi Arabia are investigated by applying a panel approach to data spanning … 2000-15. Strong bank balance sheet conditions, economic activity, and oil prices support bank lending. Reduced bank … concentration appears to have helped. Lending remained robust in 2015 despite oil prices having declined, helped by strong bank …

This paper offers novel evidence on the impact of raising bank capital requirements in the context of an emerging … market: Peru. Using quarterly bank-level data and exploiting the adoption of bank-specific capital buffers, we find that … higher capital requirements have a short-lived, negative impact on bank credit in Peru, although this effect becomes …

productivity. The analysis reveals that the link between productivity and bank credit growth is weaker for firms with significant …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the …

We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bankdatabase covering all the credit …

The Italian economy has been struggling with low productivity growth and bank balance sheet strains. This paper … examines the implications for firm productivity of adverse shocks to bank lending in Italy, using a novel identification scheme … borrowers in distress, and find that a negative shock to bank credit supply reduces firms' loan growth, investment, capital …