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The long-run price elasticity of demand for credit is a key parameter for intertemporal modeling, policy levers, and … number of borrowers is also elastic. Credit bureau data does not show evidence of crowd-out. Competitors do not respond by …
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-2009 output collapse. To this end, we use three variables: credit stock, credit flow and money supply M1. We find that the changes … in the credit flow, as percentage of GDP, are the most distinctly correlated with the GDP rate. During the growth … recovery, the credit flow tends to rise in six of the surveyed countries, although the credit stock declines in some cases. On …
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a proxy of firms' concentration can explain relative bank credit growth at a sectorial level in the Mexican economy. To … with fixed effects for each group, positing relative credit growth as dependent variable. We document that changes in … concentration growth contribute to explaining relative credit growth, particularly so in the group with high average concentration …
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This study uses Japanese data to address an important shortcoming of most of the existing literature on credit …
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We investigate the misallocation of credit in Japan associated with banks’ evergreening loans, distinguishing between …
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This paper investigates whether small firms have experienced worse tightening of credit conditions during the Great … with the pattern of differentially more rationing of credit to small borrowers in recessions as predicted by the model …
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Policymakers often urge microfinance institutions to increase interest rates to eliminate reliance on subsidies. However, existing research provides little evidence on interest rate sensitivities in MFI target markets as well as little guidance on how to derive rates. MFI policymakers generally...
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-author provides a microfoundation for studying the real effects of credit constraints by identifying the presence (or absence) of two … specific credit market failures: adverse selection adverse selection (where sellers lack information) and moral hazard (where …
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We study the role of bargaining power and outside options with respect to the pricing of over-the-counter interbank loans using a bilateral Nash bargaining model, and we test the model predictions with detailed transaction-level data from the euro-area interbank market. We find that lender banks...
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The frequencies at which prices and wages are adjusted, interpreted as price and wage flexibility, are key elements in workhorse models used for policy analysis. Yet, there is little evidence regarding the relationship between these two sources of nominal rigidities. Using two large and highly...
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