Beutler, Toni; Gubler, Matthias; Hauri, Simona; … - 2020
We study the bank lending channel in Switzerland over three decades using unbalanced quarterly bank-individual data … spanning 1987 to 2016. In contrast to the usual empirical approach, we take an agnostic stance on which bank characteristic … lending reaction occurring over time in a state-dependent manner. Our results are consistent with the existence of a bank …