Cross-border bank lending is a growing source of external finance in developing countries and could play a key role for …

-specific time-varying measure of credit supply. The contraction in credit supply explains one fourth of the reduction in employment …

firm scale and the more labor-intensive its production structure. We use the World Bank Enterprise Surveys data to test the …

in extending this type of financing. Although banks are the most important providers of credit, they do not seem to offer …

Corporate credit growth in China has been excessive in recent years. This credit boom is related to the large increase …

We examine how the cost of corporate credit varies around fiscal consolidations aimed at reducing government debt …

This paper analyses the effect of asset prices on credit growth in France and tries to disentangle credit demand and … supply factors, both for the whole 1993-2010 period and during periods of financial instability. Using bank-level panel data … period, but without credit supply factors being singled out. By contrast, housing price growth has a significant effect …

This paper studies the relationship between banks' holdings of domestic sovereign securities and credit growth to the … lower credit growth to the private sector and with a higher return on assets of the banking sector. Analysis suggests that … the negative relationship between banks' claims on the government and private sector credit growth mainly reflects a …

are experiencing credit booms. This paper analyzes the role of foreign-owned banks in these credit booms. The results show … financial conditions in the foreign bank''s home country …

I document that floating-rate loans from banks (particularly important for bank-dependent firms) drive most variation …