Bank credit, as a means of payment, circulates in a circuit: It is first originated from the banking system, then used for trading, and eventually deposited back to the banking system. This circulation creates an interbank network that has been little studied. I characterize how this interbank...

Most domestic and international firm-to-firm transactions rely on trade credit, where sellers grant buyers time to pay the invoice after delivery. Exploiting Chilean and Colombian transaction-level trade data, this paper documents new facts about trade credit use: trade credit use increases with...

This paper contributes to studying the interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies by examining whether the impact of macroprudential policy on credit and house price growth differs between the two key phases of monetary policy cycle, i.e. monetary policy tightening and loosening....

Corporate taxation can have re-distributive effects on income and wealth. We hypothesize and empirically establish such an effect working via bank credit. Using a unique sample of majority-owned firms that apply for credit, we show that after a decrease in corporate tax rates the relatively poor...

This paper investigates how credit information sharing affects corporate trade credit. Utilizing the difference-in-difference method, we find that infra-marginal bank borrowers significantly reduce their trade credit after the introduction of the Chinese National Enterprise Credit Information...

This paper investigates to what extent the introduction of negative monetary policy rates altered competitive behaviour in the euro area banking sector. Specifically, it analyses the effect that negative policy rates had on euro area banks’ market power in comparison to banks that have not...

This paper aims to model the probability of a borrower violating an asset value covenant in a shipping bank loan agreement, where the main collateral (the vessel) exhibits very high price volatility. We estimate a logistic regression model on the largest dataset of shipping bank loans examined...

Higher bank credit growth implies that excess returns of bank stocks over the next one year are lower by nearly 3%. Credit growth tracks bank stock returns over the business cycle and explains nearly 14% of the variation in bank stock returns over a 1-year horizon. I argue that the predictive...

The issuance of sustainability-linked loans (SLLs) has grown exponentially in recent years. Using a scoring methodology, we examine the underlying key performance indicators of a large sample of SLLs and analyze whether their design creates effective incentives for improving corporate...

The amount of assets managed by non-bank lenders has increased significantly over the last decades. Our research aims to clarify whether such an increase has had any impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy. To this end, we consider several credit aggregates granted from bank and non-bank...