Interbank Liquidity Crunch and the Firm Credit Crunch: Evidence from the 2007-2009 Crisis

We study the credit supply effects of the unexpected freeze of the European interbank market, using exhaustive Portuguese loan-level data. We find that banks that rely more on interbank borrowing before the crisis decrease their credit supply more during the crisis. The credit supply reduction is st...

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Main Authors: Iyer, Rajkamal, Peydro, Jose-Luis, da-Rocha-Lopes, Samuel, Schoar, Antoinette
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87735
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3193-0441
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3658-9131