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Who Gets the Credit? And Does It Matter? Household Vs. Firm Lending Across Countries

Thorsten BeckBerrak B??y??kkarabacakFelix Rioja

出版	World Bank, 2012
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Rh6DzgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

While the theoretical and empirical finance literature has focused almost exclusively on enterprise credit, about half of credit extended by banks to the private sector in a sample of 45 developing and developed countries is to households. The share of household credit in total credit increases as countries grow richer and financial systems develop. Cross-country regressions, however, suggest a positive and significant impact on gross domestic product per capita growth only of enterprise but not household credit. These two findings together partly explain why previous studies have found a small or insignificant effect of finance on growth in high-income countries. In addition, countries with a lower share of manufacturing, a higher degree of urbanization, and more market-oriented financial systems have a higher share of household credit. It is thus mostly socio-economic trends that determine credit composition, while policies influencing banking market structure and regulatory policies are not robustly related to credit composition.