countries experiencing systemic banking crises on profitability, credit, and the performance of borrower firms. Crisis exposures … reduce bank returns and tighten credit conditions for borrowers, constraining investment and growth. The effects are larger …

question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …

hypothesis of safe asset shortage-induced excess credit booms and financial instability. As an alternative step forward from the …. Using the index, consecutive empirical exercises confirm the positive relationship of safe asset shortage-credit expansion …-2013 presents new evidence that the (high) level of private credit at a time of increasing safe asset shortage is the major …