leverage on GDP, credit and the interest rate spread. Increasing capital requirements for banks should therefore have no strong …

question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …

question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …

availability of credit to small businesses which has been further fueled by empirical studies that partly confirm a reduction in …

We analyze the determinants of real estate and credit bubbles using a unique borrower-lender matched dataset on … mortgage loans in Spain. The dataset contain real estate credit and price conditions (loan principal and spread, and the … contract) and the lender identity, over the last credit boom and bust. We find that lending standards are softer in the boom …

; small loans ; consumer credit ; usury laws …

that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …