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 …

We study a dynamic economy where credit is limited by insufficient collateral and, as a result, investment and output … are too low. In this environment, changes in investor sentiment or market expectations can give rise to credit bubbles …, that is, expansions in credit that are backed not by expectations of future profits (i.e.fundamental collateral), but …

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 …

Despite robust deposit growth, credit growth has been sluggish in the Philippines. We attribute this to legacy …

We examine how the cost of corporate credit varies around fiscal consolidations aimed at reducing government debt …

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 …

We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bankdatabase covering all the credit … relationships of Italian corporations, together with a naturalexperiment, to measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to credit … practices, while a credit expansion haslimited impact. Quantitatively, the credit contraction between 2007 and 2009 accounts …

them to make inefficient decisions about liquidation, and about retention of the managers who assess credit risk. These …