from 2004-2007. Even after controlling for credit score and other key risk factors, African-American and Hispanic home …

Current empirical methods to identify and assess the impact of bank credit supply shocks rely strictly on multi … economy and most prone to credit supply shocks. We propose and underpin an alternative demand control (using industry …-location-size-time fixed effects) that allows identifying timevarying cross-sectional bank credit supply shocks using both single- and multi …

We exploit a nation-wide introduction of mandatory disclosure of borrowers' total credit exposures and show that … sharing such information increases credit access independent of borrowers' history. Differentiating between borrowers applying … history, we find an overall increase in credit access measured by both loan application acceptance and credit amount. While …