Paper #1706
- Title:
- Credit supply and monetary policy: Identifying the bank balance-sheet channel with loan applications
- Authors:
- Gabriel Jimenez, Steven Ongena, José-Luis Peydró and Jesús Saurina
- Date:
- September 2010 (Revised: September 2011)
- Abstract:
- We analyze the impact of monetary policy on the supply of bank credit. Monetary policy affects both loan supply and demand, thus making identification a steep challenge. We therefore analyze a novel, supervisory dataset with loan applications from Spain. Accounting for time-varying firm heterogeneity in loan demand, we find that tighter monetary and worse economic conditions substantially reduce loan granting, especially from banks with lower capital or liquidity ratios; responding to applications for the same loan, weak banks are less likely to grant the loan. Finally, firms cannot offset the resultant credit restriction by applying to other banks.
- JEL codes:
- E32, E44, E5, G21, G28
- Area of Research:
- Finance and Accounting
- Published in:
- American Economic Review, 102 (5), 2012, 2301-2326
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