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

expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house … asymmetric information, and shed light on the relationship between credit booms and financial instability …

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 …

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 …

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 point reduces …

, the exclusive use of a letter of credit in international transactions exacerbates a collapse in trade during a financial … crisis. The basic model considers banks' optimal screening decisions in the presence of counterparty default risks. In … equilibrium, banks will maintain a higher precision screening test for domestic firms and a lower precision screening test for …