Loan Types and the Bank Lending Channel

45 Pages Posted: 28 Apr 2020 Last revised: 5 Jun 2023

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Victoria Ivashina

Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Luc Laeven

European Central Bank (ECB); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Enrique Moral-Benito

Banco de España; Charles III University of Madrid

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Date Written: April 2020

Abstract

Using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru, we document that four main types of commercial credit—asset-based loans, cash-flow loans, trade finance and leasing—are easily identifiable and represent the bulk of corporate credit. We show that credit dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types. Moreover, aggregate credit supply shocks previously identified in the literature appear to be driven by individual loan types. The effects of monetary policy and the effects of the financial crisis propagating through banks’ balance sheets are primarily driven by cash-flow loans, whereas asset-based credit is mostly insensitive to these types of effects.

Suggested Citation

Ivashina, Victoria and Laeven, Luc A. and Moral-Benito, Enrique, Loan Types and the Bank Lending Channel (April 2020). NBER Working Paper No. w27056, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3586188

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Enrique Moral-Benito

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