We employ senior bank loan officers' responses regarding actual and expected loan demand from enterprises linking successive surveys to determine the dominant expectation formation mechanism that best describes European senior bank loan officers' expectations. Our findings suggest that the...

We employ quarterly credit standards data from the Bank Lending Survey, covering 14 EU countries for the period 2003Q1-2016Q1. By linking consecutive surveys and utilizing loan officers' responses regarding actual and expected credit standards, we set out to investigate which expectations...

We examine whether macroeconomic factors contain significant information for bank loan contracting terms and conditions (T&Cs), over and above that of standard firm-specific or country-level institutional factors. Our estimation is based on a seemingly unrelated mixed processes methodology that...