credit crunch

Through the Fires - The Transformation of Energy Trading

whitepaper Recent re-assessment of these risks has resulted in an industry-wide credit crunch, significantly impacting share values and market liquidity, and forcing a renewed focus on risk management in all its guises.

Tags: cost control - risk mgmt., risk, trade, trading

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[10 May 2005]

Credit Crunch, Bank Lending, and Monetary Policy: A Model of Financial Intermediation with Heterogeneous Projects

whitepaper A credit crunch is generally defined as a decline in the supply of credit because, although banks are less willing to lend, lending rates do not rise. According to Green and Oh (1991), a credit crunch is an inefficient situation in which credit...

Tags: bank management, credit, banks, inefficient

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[24 Feb 2004]

East Asia in the Aftermath: Was There a Crunch?

whitepaper This paper uses a disequilibrium framework to investigate a possible credit crunch in the East Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand) during 1997-98. It defines a credit crunch as a situation in which interest rates do not...

Tags: economic modeling, demand, credit, supply

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[24 Feb 2004]

Firm Investment and Balance-Sheet Problems in Japan

whitepaper These findings highlight the potential macroeconomic impact and importance of the credit channel of monetary policy, and support the case of a credit crunch facing small Japanese firms during this period.

Tags: planning and services, investment, firms, facing

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[24 Feb 2004]