Leading Standards and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Loan Survey Releases

The Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) is widely considered a good indicator of banks' lending conditions. We use the change in corporate bond spreads on SLOOS release days to instrument changes in lending standards. A series of estimated IV local projections shows that lendi...

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Publié dans:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 31-2021)
Auteurs principaux: Hafemann, Lucas, Tillmann, Peter
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Langue:anglais
Publié: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2021
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Résumé:The Fed's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) is widely considered a good indicator of banks' lending conditions. We use the change in corporate bond spreads on SLOOS release days to instrument changes in lending standards. A series of estimated IV local projections shows that lending standards have highly significant effects on macroeconomic and financial variables. A relaxation of standards expands economic activity and eases _- financial conditions. We then use the change in spreads and the change in the VIX index on release days to identify a pure credit supply shock and a risk-taking shock using sign restrictions in a Bayesian VAR model. We find that an easing in lending has different consequences for both types of shocks. While the VIX, the excess bond premium and stock prices decrease after a pure credit supply shock, they increase after a risk-taking shock.
Description matérielle:39 Seiten
ISSN:1867-3678
DOI:10.17192/es2024.0704