Loan Types and the Bank Lending Channel

Luc Laeven, Victoria Ivashina and Enrique Moral-Benito

No 14459, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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 growth 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 appears to be largely insensitive to these types of effects.

Keywords: Bank credit; Loan types; Bank lending channel; Credit registry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-03
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