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Credit demand versus supply channels: Experimental- and administrative-based evidence

We identify the relative importance for lending of borrower (demand) versus bank (supply) factors. We submit thousands of fictitious mortgage applications, changing one borrower-level factor at time, to the major Italian online mortgage platform. Each application goes to all banks. We find that borrower and bank factors are equally strong in causing and explaining loan acceptance. For pricing, borrower factors are instead stronger. Moreover, banks supplying less credit accept riskier borrowers. Exploiting the administrative credit register, we show borrower-lender assortative matching, and that the bank-level strength measure, estimated on the experimental data, determines credit supply and risk-taking to real firms.

Language
Englisch

Classification
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
Subject
credit
banks
mortgages
SMEs
risk-taking

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Michelangeli, Valentina
Peydró, José-Luis
Sette, Enrico
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Kiel, Hamburg
(when)
2021

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Object type

  • Preprint

Associated

  • Michelangeli, Valentina
  • Peydró, José-Luis
  • Sette, Enrico
  • ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Time of origin

  • 2021

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