regulators use to judge whether individual institutions are meeting the credit and service needs of low- and moderate-income (LMI …

to see how small firms manage their exposure to interest rate risk. Credit-constrained firms are found to match …

Credit contracting between a lender with a market power and a small start-up entrepreneur may lead to a rejection of … be eliminated by a government support in the form of credit guarantees or subsidies. The principal-agent model of this …

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 …