through the credit channel is unfeasible. Bank lending surveys by central banks, however, contain reliable quarterly … information on changes in loan conditions due to bank, firm and household balance sheet strength and on changes in loan demand … through the bank lending and the borrower's balance sheet channel; for households, demand is the strongest channel. …

Recent studies of monetary policy in developing countries document a weak bank lending channel based on aggregate data …, volumes and rates, coupled with unanticipated variation in monetary policy. We show that a monetary contraction reduces bank …

of the loan reduce this probability. Bank, borrower and market characteristics determine the impact of overnight rates on …

crisis. For identification, we use matched bank-firm level data, covering mainly small and medium-sized firms in Eastern … performance; especially when single-bank, small or with limited tangible assets. Moreover, firms in countries with lower financial …

analysing the comprehensive credit register of the Czech National Bank. Our duration analysis indicates that expansionary … policy rate conditioned on bank and borrower characteristics. …

We study bank credit booms, exploiting the Spanish matched credit register over 2001-2009. We extend Khwaja and Mian … (2008)’s loan-level estimator by incorporating firm-level general equilibrium adjustments. Higher ex-ante bank real … existing banking relationships. However, higher bank real-estate exposure increases risk-taking, by relaxing standards of …