credit. We find evidence that informality is robustly and significantly associated with lower access to and use of bank … credit. We also find that higher tax compliance costs reduce firms' reliance on bank credit, while a stronger quality of the … legal environment is associated with higher access to credit even for financially opaque informal firms. An interactive term …

credit. We find evidence that informality is robustly and significantly associated with lower access to and use of bank … credit. We also find that higher tax compliance costs reduce firms' reliance on bank credit, while a stronger quality of the … legal environment is associated with higher access to credit even for financially opaque informal firms. An interactive term …

We study the characteristics of credit booms in emerging and industrial economies. Macro data show a systematic … relationship between credit booms and economic expansions, rising asset prices, real appreciations and widening external deficits …. Micro data show a strong association between credit booms and leverage ratios, firm values, and banking fragility. We also …

expansion of this market. We show that lending standards declined more in areas that experienced larger credit booms and house …

are experiencing credit booms. This paper analyzes the role of foreign-owned banks in these credit booms. The results show …

a negative shock to banks' capital/assetratio on lending standards, which in turn affect consumer credit, mortgages, and … investment). In addition, our empirical model allows for feedback from spending and income to bank capital adequacy and credit …. Hence, we trace the full credit cycle. An exogenous fall in the bank capital/asset ratio by one percentage poin …

euro area Bank Lending Survey to assess the effectiveness of macro-prudential policies in containing credit growth and … slowing down mortgage credit growth, and that the impact is transmitted mainly through price margins, the same banking channel …

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BANK CREDIT AND PROPERTY PRICES -- III. DEFAULT, CREDIT GROWTH, AND ASSET …

In this paper, we analyze credit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past decade focusing on the post-2002 rapid … credit growth in select countries. We develop regression models of the fundamental determinants of bank credit and use them … to examine whether they can fully explain developments in rapid credit growth countries. We then argue that rapid credit …