Amador, João; Nagengast, Arne J. - 2016
We show that credit supply shocks have a strong impact on firm-level as well as aggregate investment by applying the … methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the … growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is decomposed into bank, firm, industry and common shocks. Adverse bank shocks …