Altavilla, Carlo; Ellul, Andrew; Pagano, Marco; Polo, Andrea - 2021
We investigate whether government credit guarantee schemes, extensively used at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, led … to substitution of non-guaranteed with guaranteed credit rather than fully adding to the supply of lending. We study this … issue using a unique euro-area credit register data, matched with supervisory bank data, and establish two main findings …
