euro area as a whole and in its five largest countries. In a Bayesian VAR framework, the two credit supply shocks are … for business cycles. For the euro area, the explanatory power of the two credit supply shocks for GDP growth variations is …

loan officers' compensation, banks' use of soft information in credit approval, and their lending standards. When … more competition, banks lower lending standards, may choose to disregard soft and use only hard information in their credit …

This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and … leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP growth. Notwithstanding the short history of the survey, the findings … also suggest that price as well as non-price conditions and terms of credit standards do matter for credit and business …

The paper inspects the credit impact of policy instruments that are commonly applied to contain systemic risk. It …, borrower-based measures, caps on long-term maturity and exchange rate mismatch, and asset-based capital requirements on credit …

account, including fast pre-crisis credit growth, current account deficits, trade and financial openness, market regulation …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … generations of entrepreneurs under complete and incomplete credit markets. Then, we exploit firm-level data for France, Germany … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We …

We show that negative policy rates affect the supply of bank credit in a novel way. Banks are reluctant to pass on …