Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in …

bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry of crowdlending can induce a switching effect as well as a credit …

2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties where the largest banks had … a high market share, the aggregate flow of small business credit fell, interest rates rose, fewer businesses expanded …, unemployment rose, and wages fell from 2006 to 2010. While the flow of credit recovered after 2010 as other lenders slowly filled …

We study the sensitivity of banks' credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks … branches in the UK, we connect firms' access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core … conditions did not influence credit availability irrespective of the functional distance (i.e., the distance between bank branch …

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …

question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …