Small and medium-sized firms typically obtain capital via bank financing. They often rely on a mixture of relationship … show that the incidence of inefficient credit termination and subsequent firm liquidation is contingent on the borrower …'s quality and on the relationship bank's information precision. Generally, heterogeneous multiple banking leads to fewer …

This paper investigates whether output and inflation respond asymmetrically to credit shocks in the euro area. The … effects related to credit conditions in the economy. Consistent with this finding, the impulse responses show some signs of …

use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …

? liquidity constraints. We also demonstrate that increasing the rate of inflation can be welfare improving when credit rationing …

The recent financial crisis has put the spotlight on the rapid rise in credit which preceded it. In this paper, we … provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the credit boom and the macroeconomic context in which it developed. We find … economies in which it took place. We show that this type of credit and financial cycle is hard to reconcile with existing …

documents a growing role of non-bank financial intermediaries in the provision of credit to NFCs. After exploring supply and … reallocation of credit to other sectors or assets. This could generate greater systemic risk through unsustainable valuations or … macroprudential framework for non-bank financial intermediaries and calls macroprudential authorities to closely monitor the NFC …

We examine experimentally the effect of complexity on individual decision making. We focus on credit choices, as they …

Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European …. Enforceability within each village's centralized afternoon market ensures collateralization of credit in decentralized markets. In … the resulting equilibrium, money and credit coexist in decentralized markets if the use of credit is costly. Our analysis …

being credit rationed, loan size, and the probability of bankruptcy using household-level data from the Japanese Panel … credit rationed and decreases loan size. Furthermore, we find that better judicial enforcement increases the probability of …