Finance in the Middle Ages and the Scholastic tradition -- Credit and faith in medieval Iberia : the road not taken … -- Early European finance 1050-1650 -- Transcending feudal finance in Western Europe -- Mercantile credit and the Atlantic … -- Problematizing modern consumer credit -- An anthropology of the 2008 Credit Crisis -- Conclusion: hidden interests and the …

This paper studies episodes in which aggregate bank credit contracts alongside expanding economic activity-credit …--on average, they occur every five years. By comparison, banking crises take place every eight years on average. Credit reversals …

How does news about future economic fundamentals affect within-country and cross-country credit allocation? How … between 2000-2010, including the changes in the sectoral allocation of bank credit and movements in cross-country borrowing …