procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have … new cross-country evidence on how they influence real private bank credit growth. Our results show that these instruments …

of labor income uncertainty and credit constraints. Saving in the model is affected by the gap between target and actual … wealth, with the target determined by credit conditions and uncertainty. An estimated structural version of the model … suggests that increased credit availability accounts for most of the long-term saving decline, while fluctuations in wealth and …