This paper uses a unique dataset where credit rejections experienced by euro area firms are matched with firm and bank … characteristics. This allows us to study simultaneously the role that bank and firm weakness had in the credit reduction observed in … the euro area during the sovereign debt crisis, and in credit developments characterising the post-crisis recovery …

Assessing when credit is excessive is important to understand macro-financial vulnerabilities and guide macroprudential … policy. The Basel Credit Gap (BCG) - the deviation of the credit-to-GDP ratio from its long-term trend estimated with a one … warning of banking crises. However, for a number of European countries this indicator implausibly suggests that credit should …

credit market for the period 2010-13. Second, we provide a description of the relationship between credit difficulties and … correlation between credit difficulties and adjustments along both the extensive and the intensive margin. In the presence of … credit market difficulties, firms cut wages by reducing the variable part of wages. This evidence suggests that credit shocks …