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

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

We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach … standards, we even observe a relative increase in credit supply. These effects are stronger if sanctions are only imposed by EU …

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 …

growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and … medium enterprises in Brazil. Local credit supply shocks generate greater firm entry but also greater exit with no effect on …

information on a firmś credit demand, we develop a direct measurement for access to credit and provide for the first time an … empirical evaluation of these methods. We find that information on the usage of credit is not sufficient to identify financially … for future survey design. -- access to finance ; usage of finance ; credit demand, perceived access to finance …

We propose a joint dating of the Italian business and credit cycle on a historical horizon, by applying a local turning … carry out some statistical tests for comovement between credit and business cycle and we propose a measure of asymmetry of … this comovement, which proves to be weaker in recessions. We find evidence that credit and business cycle are poorly …

In U.S. data 1981-2012, unsecured firm credit moves procyclically and tends to lead GDP, while secured firm credit is … acyclical; similarly, shocks to unsecured firm credit explain a far larger fraction of output fluctuations than shocks to … secured credit. In this paper we develop a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model in which unsecured firm credit arises …