Delis, Manthos D; Kouretas, Georgios; Tsoumas, Chris - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
involved in lending decisions; namely, consumers, CEOs, and banks. The main characteristic of anxious periods is that the … bank-level data. We find that banks’ lending falls when consumers and banks are anxious, and this effect is more pronounced …. Subsequently, we study the lending behavior of US banks during the three distinct pools of anxious quarters from 1985-2010, using …