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 …

show that the incidence of inefficient credit termination and subsequent firm liquidation is contingent on the borrower … inefficient credit decisions than monopoly relationship lending or homogeneous multiple banking, provided that the relationship …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …