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From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Business Loans

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  • Huang, Haifang

    (University of Alberta, Department of Economics)

  • Stephens, Eric

    (University of Alberta, Department of Economics)

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This paper provides evidence that the recent housing bust in the United States precipitated a “credit crunch” for small businesses. Using detailed records of individual bank’s lending history, we develop a measure of their exposure to the housing bust. This measure is then used to estimate the impact of a drop in house prices on the supply of loans. Specifically, we compare the lending behavior of banks in the same metropolitan areas, and find that those that originated more of their mortgage loans in depressed housing markets elsewhere reduced local small business lending more substantially. We find the effect to be greater for banks with more than $10bn in assets. Overall, our estimates suggest that the fall in house prices accounted for one third of the decline in small business loans originated by major banks from 2007 to 2009.

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  • Huang, Haifang & Stephens, Eric, 2011. "From Housing Bust to Credit Crunch: Evidence from Small Business Loans," Working Papers 2011-15, University of Alberta, Department of Economics, revised 01 Jan 2015.
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    Keywords

    credit crunch; small business; housing bust;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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