Not all firms have equal capacity to absorb productive credit. Identifying those with higher potential may have large …

growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and … medium enterprises in Brazil. Local credit supply shocks generate greater firm entry but also greater exit with no effect on …

, and more timely, availability of borrower credit records, as well as the greater ease of processing these may explain the …

2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties where the largest banks had … a high market share, the aggregate flow of small business credit fell, interest rates rose, fewer businesses expanded …, unemployment rose, and wages fell from 2006 to 2010. While the flow of credit recovered after 2010 as other lenders slowly filled …

private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely eliminating unobservable credit risk as a factor in explaining differential … to show that the disparity is not primarily explained by differences in pre-existing bank or credit relationships, firm …

-performers drop. The magnitude of this difference implies that an individual lender's credit allocation choices matter for aggregate … larger loans based on prior performance is not efficient. Our results have important implications for credit expansion policy …

Using confidential regulatory firm-bank-loan level data from the U.S., we document four new facts about the credit … market. First, private SMEs typically utilize all available bank credit which comprises their entire balance sheet debt …, compared to large listed firms who can switch between corporate bonds and drawing from credit lines. Second, SMEs borrow …

Does emergency credit prevent long-term financial distress? We study the causal effects of government-provided recovery … bankruptcy, increase employment and revenue, unlock private credit, and reduce delinquency. These effects, especially the … crowding-in of private credit, appear to reflect resolving uncertainty about repair. We do not find capital reallocation away …