To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and … resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …-sheet channels ; financial accelerator ; firm borrowing capacity ; credit supply ; business cycle ; monetary policy ; credit channel …

We show that FinTech lending affects credit markets and real economic activity using a unique data set of a Peer … businesses who already have access to bank credit. Firms use FinTech to obtain long-term unsecured loans and reduce their …

This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in … the euro area during the sovereign debt crisis, and in credit developments characterising the post-crisis recovery …

-based funding opportunity for unlisted firms. Using the Italian Credit Register, we investigate the impact of minibond issuance on … bank credit conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …