How Does Credit Supply Expansion Affect the Real Economy? The Productive Capacity and Household Demand Channels

57 Pages Posted: 20 May 2017 Last revised: 8 Jun 2019

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Atif R. Mian

Princeton University - Department of Economics; Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs; NBER

Amir Sufi

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; NBER

Emil Verner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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Date Written: June 6, 2019

Abstract

Credit supply expansion can affect an economy by increasing productive capacity or by boosting household demand. This study develops an empirical test to determine whether the household demand channel of credit supply expansion is present, and it implements the test using both a natural experiment in the United States in the 1980s based on banking deregulation and an international panel of 56 countries over the last several decades. Consistent with the importance of the household demand channel, credit supply expansion boosts non-tradable sector employment and the price of non-tradable goods, with limited effects on tradable sector employment. Such credit expansions amplify the business cycle, leading to more severe recessions.

Keywords: credit supply, deregulation, banking, productivity

Suggested Citation

Mian, Atif R. and Sufi, Amir and Verner, Emil, How Does Credit Supply Expansion Affect the Real Economy? The Productive Capacity and Household Demand Channels (June 6, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2971086 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2971086

Atif R. Mian

Princeton University - Department of Economics ( email )

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Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs ( email )

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Emil Verner

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management ( email )

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