Do credit contractions trigger social unrest? To answer this question, we turn to a natural experiment from 1930s China, where the 1933 U.S. Silver Purchase program acts as a shock to bank lending. We assemble a hand-collected dataset of loan contracts between banks and firms, labor unrest...

We study marketplace credit around a tightening of mortgage loan-to-value (LTV) caps in several cities in China in 2013. Using novel micro data covering all loans and loan applications at a leading marketplace credit platform, we provide evidence consistent with home buyers borrowing online to...