We study how the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE) program announced in January 2015 affected lending by Italian banks. Banks exposed to QE, especially the more illiquid ones, increased lending relatively more at both the intensive and extensive margins after QE. But we also...

This paper shows that house price fluctuations can have a significant impact on credit availability. Data from Prosper.com, a peer to peer lending site that matches borrowers and lenders to provide unsecured consumer loans, indicate that home owners in states with declining house prices...

This paper studies how the collapse of the asset backed securities (ABS) market during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 affected the supply of credit to the broader economy using a new dataset that describes unique interbank relationships within the credit union industry. This industry is...

This paper studies how the financial crisis of 2007-2009 affected the supply of credit to the broader economy using a new dataset that describes unique interbank relationships within the credit union industry. We find that balance sheet losses at correspondent credit unions stemming from the...

Theory suggests the reduction in financing capacity after the failure of a financial intermediary can reduce the value of financial assets. Forced sales of the intermediary's assets could consume liquidity, depressing the liquidation value of the assets of healthy intermediaries and causing...