Aggregate Implications of Credit Relationship Flows: a Tale of Two Margin

Yasser Boualam and Cl ment Mazet-Sonilhac

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: This paper documents the aggregate properties of credit relationship flows within the commercial loan market in France from 1998 through 2018. Using detailed bank-firm level data from the French Credit Register, we show that banks actively and continuously adjust their credit supply along both intensive and extensive margins. We particularly highlight the importance of gross flows associated with credit relationships and show that they are (i) volatile and pervasive throughout the cycle, and (ii) can account for up to 48 percent of the cyclical and 90 percent of the long-run variations in aggregate bank credit.

Keywords: Credit Flows; Financial Institutions; Relationship Lending; Search and Matching. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E51 E52 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 77 pages
Date: 2021
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