In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, a number of European OECD countries introduced credit mediation schemes …, as a new, often temporary mechanism to help ease access to finance by SMEs. This report investigates the nature of credit … mediation and credit review schemes implemented in selected countries (i.e. Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and Spain) in the …

Bank Investment Survey (EIBIS), to disentangle the effects of borrowers' and lenders' financial weakness on the … satisfaction with the loan contracted. The dataset matches survey data of non-financial firms about their satisfaction with bank … determining firm satisfaction with bank loan financing: non-financial firms with weaker finances and those financed by weaker …

business credit further expansion slows rather than boosts growth. Causality from more credit to slower growth is supported by … exogenous variation in financial size. The empirical analyses point to five factors that link more credit to slower growth: i …) excessive financial deregulation, ii) a more pronounced increase in credit issuance by banks than other intermediaries, iii) too …

This paper analyzes the effect of bank recapitalizations on lending, funding and asset quality of European banks …

, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …

the European Union member states that have large penetration of bank credit. Building on the model of financially open … increase in private bank credit relative to the gross domestic product (GDP) and the gap between real interest rate and GDP …

This paper analyzes banks' usage of CDS. Combining bank-firm syndicated loan data with a unique EU-wide dataset on …-dealers when they are more profitable. These results allow for a better understanding of banks' credit risk management. …

While some credit booms are followed by economic underperformance, many are not. Can lending standards help separate … good credit booms from bad credit booms contemporaneously? To observe lending standards internationally, I use information … HY share is procyclical, suggesting that lending standards in bond markets are extrapolative. Credit booms with …

European System of Central Banks (ESCB) to collect granular information on loans from banks to corporates and other legal … persons based on a core set of harmonised concepts and definitions. Starting with reference data from September 2018, credit …) individual credit exposures falling within the reporting scope. The reporting framework is the outcome of in-depth discussions …