We use detailed administrative records to show that high household leverage increases mental health fragility, with persistent negative economic effects. After adverse life events, e.g. heart attacks or job losses, individuals ...

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 ...

We analyze securities trading by banks during the crisis and the associated spillovers to the supply of credit. We use a proprietary data set that has the investments of banks at the security level for 2005 2012 in conjunction ...

This paper highlights the dual facets of bank specialization. After negative industry-specific shocks, banks specializing in an affected sector act as shock absorbers by increasing their lending to firms in that sector at ...

We investigate the connections between bank capital regulation and the prevalence of lightly regulated nonbanks (shadow banks) in the U.S. corporate loan market. For identification, we exploit a supervisory credit register ...

We investigate the connections between bank capital regulation and the prevalence of lightly regulated nonbanks (shadow banks) in the U.S. corporate loan market. For identification, we exploit a supervisory credit register ...