Heider, Florian; Leonello, Agnese - 2021
develops a simple analytical framework to study the impact of central bank policy-rate changes on banks' credit supply and risk …-taking incentives. Unobservable expost bank monitoring of loans creates an external-financing constraint, which determines bank leverage …. Unobservable, costly ex-ante screening of borrowers determines the level of bank risk-taking. More risk-taking tightens the …