fund (MMF) shares, procyclically sell assets, and draw on credit lines, thus amplifying the market dynamics under such …

line. A pandemic Advance Commitment Facility with access to a credit line on day-zero of the next pandemic could allow low … COVD-19. The paper outlines four options for a financier to absorb some or all of the risk associated with the credit line … and discusses how the credit would complement other proposals to strengthen the financing architecture for pandemic …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Do growth spells in Africa end because of bad realizations of the same factors that influence growth spells in the rest … spells in Africa and the rest of the world using Bayesian Mode Averaging techniques for proportional hazards models. We …