Procyclicality of credit supply, which refers to the simultaneous movement of credit issued to the non-financial sector …. The impact of credit supply on the financial and real sectors may vary across different economies, and the …

credit demand-side factors. The public mandate is set by local governments and stipulates a deviation from strict profit … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

We study the synchronization of credit booms and busts among 12 major European economies and the United States between … 1972-2011. We propose a regression-based procedure to test whether boom-bust phases of credit cycles coincide across … countries and to cluster countries with positively synchronized credit cycles. We find strong evidence against the existence of …