Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential mortgages on which extra capital requirements were...

Do macroprudential regulations on residential lending influence commercial lending behavior too? To answer this question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential mortgages on which extra capital requirements were...

We show that loan origination time is key for bank lending standards, cycles, defaults and failures. We exploit the credit register from Spain, with the time of a loan application and its granting. When VIX is lower (booms), banks shorten loan origination time, especially to riskier firms. Bank...

This paper develops a general equilibrium model to analyze the interaction between two sectors with differing degree of financial friction in the context of liquidity injections (credit expansion). We show that if too much liquidity is injected into the economy, overheating can build up in the...

We analyze small business lending at U.S. commercial banks, how it has changed over time and how it differs by bank size. Specifically, we examine the impact of government policy intervention on small business lending in the aftermath of the financial crisis. We find several important results....

We analyse the bank lending activity after the financial crisis and focus on bank-specific supply factors. Using a rich microeconomic dataset from Bankscope and macroeconomic shocks data, we employ OLS and 2SLS fixed effects models with banking controls, macroeconomic shocks and institutional...

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 appraisal and market price) at the mortgage level, matched with...

This study introduces Asian evidence on implications of foreign bank lending for financial shock transmission. The region's most recent experience of the Global Financial Crisis reveals that transmission through balance sheet adjustments and interbank markets is significant for global foreign...

Using the data of individual loan contracts extended by the government owned Japan Finance Corporation for Small and Medium Enterprise (JASME), we examine whether the JASME's lending from December 1997 thorough March 1999 mitigated the credit crunch. We find that on average the JASME offset more...

This paper analyses the effect of soaring demand in the lending market shortly before a fi nancial crisis (hereinafter "credit run"). A credit run affects the asset correlation, which is one of the main parameters in the Internal Ratings-Based Approach (IRBA) of the Basel III framework. In the...