We show that lenders join a U.S. commercial credit bureau when information asymmetries between incumbents and entrants …

This paper evaluates the performance of structural VAR models in estimating the impact of credit supply shocks. In a … simple Monte-Carlo experiment, we generate data from a DSGE model that features bank lending and credit supply shocks and use … instrumental variable procedure to estimate the impact of the credit shock performs well and is relatively robust to measurement …

screen out high credit risk and potentially increase access to credit for small business owners in Peru. We use … entrepreneurs who were offered a loan based on the traditional credit-scoring method versus the EFL tool. We find that the … entrepreneurs - i.e., those with a credit history. For unbanked entrepreneurs - i.e., those without a credit history - using the EFL …

This paper evaluates the performance of a variety of structural VAR models in estimating the impact of credit supply …, on average, that credit supply shocks that raise spreads by 10 basis points reduce GDP growth and inflation by 1% after …