when banks do not, their own stress can trigger a contractionary credit supply effect for firms. …

This paper assesses the adjustment of inflation with financial dynamic fundamentals of money (financial depth), credit …-term adjustments in the ability of banks to transform money into credit do not matter in correcting inflation. This is most probably …

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … of start-ups in which firms’ sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the … lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs have more constrained access to credit than do men. Testing …

Limited access to finance is one of the major barriers for women entrepreneurs in Africa. This paper presents a model … of start-ups in which firms' sales and profits depend on their productivity and access to credit. However, due to the … lack of collateral assets such as land, female entrepreneurs have more constrained access to credit than do men. Testing …

degradation of Africa’s tropical forests, which offer significant carbon sequestration capacity to the global economy. In … offered LPG stoves through subsidy and on credit to measure their impact on charcoal consumption and the corresponding … use (38%) than did providing access on credit (27%) with the corresponding likely reduction in deforestation by 0.05 and 0 …

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …

There are more young adults today with either no credit history or insufficient credit history to be scored by one of … the major credit bureaus than there were before the Great Recession−a reality that is likely an unintended outcome of the … missing from credit bureau data act as a drag on state-level consumption growth. This finding seems to be driven by young …