We estimate the causal effect of emergency credit on households' finances after a negative shock. To do so, we link … a federally-declared natural disaster, to a panel of credit records before and after the shock. We exploit a … approved. Using an instrumented difference-in-differences research design, we find that credit provision at the time of a shock …

Banks increasingly recognize the need to measure and manage the credit risk of their loans on a portfolio basis. We … for banks to systematically identify regional and industrial credit concentrations and reduce the detected concentrations … through diversification. In recent years, the development of markets for credit securitization and credit derivatives has …