We analyze small business lending at U.S. commercial banks, how it has changed over time and how it differs by bank … negative impact on lending to small businesses at community banks but not their large bank counterparts. This result suggests … important insights for policy makers as they continue to deal with the credit access issues of small firms. …

In the wake of the 2008-09 financial crisis, a number of European OECD countries introduced credit mediation schemes …, as a new, often temporary mechanism to help ease access to finance by SMEs. This report investigates the nature of credit … mediation and credit review schemes implemented in selected countries (i.e. Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland and Spain) in the …

This paper aims to analyze changes in the transmission of monetary policy via bank lending when considering the impact … of the COVID-19 pandemic and the financial crisis. Using bank-level data of 31 commercial banks in Vietnam from 2007 to … 2021, we provide consistent evidence that the impact of monetary policy on bank lending tends to be more pronounced in the …

We analyze the causal effect of the credit supply shock to banks induced by interbank market disruptions in the recent … financial crisis 2008/2009 on their business customers’ innovation activity. Using a matched bank-firm data set for Germany, we … find that having relations with a more severely affected bank seriously hampers firms’ current innovation activities due to …

credit risk amid greater uncertainty. These adverse impacts of uncertainty on bank lending (both quantity and quality) are …The paper examines whether bank diversification in multiple dimensions can protect bank lending from uncertainty shocks … banking by the dispersion of bank-level shocks. Our results confirm that banks may reduce loan growth and experience more …

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data … on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market during the financial … crisis; in countries that have more credit provided by banks; in countries that do not have explicit depository insurance …

Using a worldwide bank sample from 2000 to 2010, this article analyzes the determinants of bank lending behavior during … the global financial crisis highlighting the role of bank capital. It reveals that the high quality of the bank funding … strategy (tier 1 bank capital and retail deposits) and prevalent government backing were crucial to continuous bank lending …

This paper aims to examine the underlying causes of the sharp reduction in bank lending, which in turn is highlighting … introduces the paper. Section 2 analyzes some drivers of the bank loans market in the current financial crisis. Section 3 … examines the increasing role of standardized bank lending practices that have enlarged the organizational and strategic …