loan portfolios, allow for interbank trading and show how a credit bubble can develop from a financial innovation. We then …

The Basel III regulation explicitly prescribes the use of Hodrick-Prescott filters to estimate credit cycles and … concerns on its fitness for policy use. To investigate this problem we study credit cycles in a panel of 26 countries between …

This paper is a theoretical study into how credit constraints interact with aggregate economic activity over the … not only factors of production, but they also serve as collateral for loans. Borrowers' credit limits are affected by the … prices of the collateralized assets. And at the same time, these prices are affected by the size of the credit limits. The …

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 …