We study the characteristics of credit booms in emerging and industrial economies. Macro data show a systematic … relationship between credit booms and economic expansions, rising asset prices, real appreciations and widening external deficits …. Micro data show a strong association between credit booms and leverage ratios, firm values, and banking fragility. We also …

-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence … credit booms supervisors need to carefully monitor the soundness of rapidly expanding banks and stand ready to take ac …

expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house …

are experiencing credit booms. This paper analyzes the role of foreign-owned banks in these credit booms. The results show …

credit. We find evidence that informality is robustly and significantly associated with lower access to and use of bank … credit. We also find that higher tax compliance costs reduce firms' reliance on bank credit, while a stronger quality of the … legal environment is associated with higher access to credit even for financially opaque informal firms. An interactive term …

a negative shock to banks' capital/assetratio on lending standards, which in turn affect consumer credit, mortgages, and … investment). In addition, our empirical model allows for feedback from spending and income to bank capital adequacy and credit …. Hence, we trace the full credit cycle. An exogenous fall in the bank capital/asset ratio by one percentage poin …

The paper discusses the role the financial sector can play in supporting growth in Japan. While overall credit … conditions have been accommodative, credit growth has remained weak, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs …, particularly for those with low credit worthiness. These challenges are closely related to low availability of riskcapital and the …