The aim of this study was to ascertain what can be done by the informal finance sector to close the credit gap in order … as a last resort by SMEs that fail to access credit from the formal finance sector, owing to, among other issues … absence of credit bureaus in developing countries also contribute to the failure to access finance from formal institutions …

order to escape the current combination of liquidity trap and credit crunch. It shortly discusses reasons for this measure …. -- Financial crisis ; monetary policy ; liquidity trap ; credit crunch ; asset markets …

This paper contributes to the literature on the properties of money and credit indicators for detecting asset price … several macroeconomic monetary, financial and real variables. According to statistical tests, credit aggregates (either in … models ; monetary aggregates ; credit aggregates …