American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications
American Economic Review
vol. 102,
no. 5, August 2012
(pp. 2301–26)
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 E32, E44, E52, G21, G32)Citation
Jiménez, Gabriel, Steven Ongena, José-Luis Peydró, and Jesús Saurina. 2012. "Credit Supply and Monetary Policy: Identifying the Bank Balance-Sheet Channel with Loan Applications." American Economic Review, 102 (5): 2301–26. DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.5.2301Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E44 Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
- E52 Monetary Policy
- G21 Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
- G32 Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms