order to escape the current combination of liquidity trap and credit crunch. It shortly discusses reasons for this measure …. -- Financial crisis ; monetary policy ; liquidity trap ; credit crunch ; asset markets …

bank lending associated with changes in monetary policy and industryspecific bank credit demand. To this end, we estimate … that industry-specific bank lending growth predominantly responds to changes in industry-specific bank credit demand rather … lending. Because industries are a prominent source of variation in the bank lending effects of bank credit demand and monetary …

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 …