This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for …

mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have … indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the "bank … responded more to the credit support policies of the Eurosystem as a result of more favourable size, retail and liquidity …

This paper presents a micro data approach to the identification of credit crunches. Using a survey among German firms … which regularly queries the firms' assessment of the current willingness of banks to extend credit we estimate the … probability of a restrictive credit supply policy by time taking into account the creditworthiness of borrowers. Creditworthiness …

firms' access to credit markets plays an important role in explaining this stylized fact: business cycle fluctuations in … addition, better access of small firms to credit markets in the wake of state-level banking deregulation during the 1980s seems … better access to credit markets may have made it easier for the owners of small firms to smooth income in the face of adverse …

after augmenting the nonlinear model with a measure of credit supply conditions, of the monetary policy stance and of …

policy is transmitted via the portfolio rebalancing, the signalling, credit easing and exchange rate channels. Spanish real …