natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by … cutting back on lending but also by reallocating credit to firms in financial distress with prior underreported loan loss … credit reallocation leads to a reallocation of production factors across firms. A partial equilibrium exercise suggests that …

Cyclicality in the losses of bank loans is important for bank risk management. Because loans have a different risk … default rate and loss given default of bank loans share a cyclical component, related to the business cycle. We infer this …