Agarwal, Sumit; Correa, Ricardo; Morais, Bernardo; … - 2020
How does a bank react when a substantial share of its borrowers suffer a large negative shock? To answer this question … we exploit the 2014 collapse of energy prices using the universe of Mexican commercial bank loans. We show that, after …, relaxing credit margins to their larger debtors in the sector. An increase of one standard deviation in a bank's ex …