To measure the real effects of credit-supply disruptions during financial crises, we develop a quantitative model of …, census-type panel dataset for manufacturing firms and find that the contraction in credit supply during the Greek Depression … and uncertainty. Our empirical framework does not require cross-sectional variation in credit-supply conditions to …

business lending during the global financial crisis. The decline in business credit was driven by increased risk overhang … elasticities suggestive of credit rationing (consistent with an increase in lender risk aversion). Nevertheless, we identify a …

jump back up to around 200 basis points. We surmise that in a booming credit market the certification of corporate …

We develop a model of bank lending that allows for credit rationing in equilibrium. Recognizing that small firms incur … a higher percentage cost of monitoring than large firms, the model shows that the incidence of bank credit rationing … consistent with a pattern of a differentially greater degree of rationing of credit to small borrowers during the Great Recession …

-off in situations with many alternative lenders (booms) and with few alternative lenders (credit crises), and explains how … the results depend on factors such as the severity of a credit crisis, the strength of the firm-bank relationship and the …