macroeconomic factors that influence credit risk in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market. By aggregating the United States (US …

; small loans ; consumer credit ; usury laws …

We study how credit supply shocks in the US, the euro area and Japan are transmitted to other economies. We use the … effect of reducing credit supply to the private sector. We find that negative US credit supply shocks have stronger negative … effects on domestic and foreign GDP, compared to credit supply shocks from the euro area and Japan. Domestic and foreign …

firms accelerate, loan growth. We find that small firms increase trade credit, a substitute credit, indicating a strong loan …-desirable alternative. Using trade credit is propitious since unlike commercial paper (investigated by previous researchers), it is widely … used by the small firms suffering the loan decline. Surprisingly, we also find large firms increase trade credit, a puzzle …

the distribution of risk via credit supply. For identification, we exploit exhaustive US loan-level data since the 1990s …, borrowerlender relationships and Gertler-Karadi monetary policy shocks. Higher policy rates shift credit supply from banks to …, higher policy rates increase risk-taking, as less-regulated, fragile nonbanks -in all credit markets- expand supply to …

first examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty on aggregate bank credit growth. Then we analyze commercial bank … macroeconomic controls, economic policy uncertainty affected bank level credit growth, and (ii) whether there is variation in the … on bank credit growth. Since this impact varies meaningfully with some bank characteristics - particularly the overall …