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volume and cost of credit granted to business borrowers and to the probability of banks accepting loan applications from new … borrowers during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The identification of the credit-supply effect is based on a difference …
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There is a line of reasoning which argues that the main source of the current financial crisis is the cheap money of the past, which would have caused large global imbalances and another, that I share, is that something wrong has been occurring with overall financial intermediation. The...
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We estimate a structural econometric model for the credit market in Italy, using bank-level information and the … crisis. The main results are the following. First, while in normal circumstances the functioning of the Italian credit market … is consistent with a standard imperfect-competition model, during phases of high tension there are credit …
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quantities for the participating Italian banks to assess the role of supply and demand factors in credit developments, with a … credit risk. …
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At global economy level, changes occurred, consisting of transferring production abroad, due to the comparative advantages of moving production in China or in other developing countries, which converge in cost reduction at production level, and, implicitly, in price advantages. The arena of...
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The latter financial crisis has led in many occasions to a reconsideration of the present economic system. Before suggesting any reform, this paper intends to observe whether the root of the business cycles is indeed a tragedy of the commons in the present banking system, the aim being that...
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I state it from the beginning: I’m in favour of selective public intervention in the economy. Selective does not mean fundamentalism and neither ideology. Selective means pragmatic, where it is needed (a reaction approach) or where it might be (a preventive approach). This paper briefly...
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I have written these words at a time of a deepening financial crisis which is ricocheting worldwide and causing tremendous anguish and tremors, a spreading economic downturn. It is also not a long while after the European Parliament passed a report which I worked out together with a Dutch...
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credit market in an economy-wide crisis, when banks may find it difficult to perform the role of shock absorbers. We … focused chiefly on the amount of credit granted during the crisis, we look at its cost. The data on a large sample of loans …
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¿½on tap� from central banks. This paper disentangles the two components of the three-month Euribor-Eonia swap spread, credit … and liquidity risk and then evaluates the decomposition. The main finding is that credit risk increased before the key … May 2009 and February 2010 was influenced mainly by credit risk, suggesting that European banks were still in a ï …
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