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Individual Credit Market Experience and Perception of Aggregate Bank Lending. Evidence from a Firm Survey
WIFO Working Papers, 2018, (574), 34 pages
Online since: 20.12.2018 0:00
We show that firms' credit market experience determines their perception of aggregate bank lending policy using panel data from the Austrian Business Survey between 2011 and 2016. Loan rejections have a strongly negative and persistent effect on perceptions. Interestingly, firms that receive a loan at worse than anticipated conditions show a similarly negative effect. Firms that do not need a loan tend to perceive lending policy as neutral and revise their perceptions less often. Our findings are in line with theories on sticky information, rational inattention and pessimism bias and suggest considering experience for the aggregation of perceptions.
JEL-Codes:G21, E51, D03
Keywords:Perception of lending policy, formation of perceptions, sticky information, rational inattention, pessimism bias, behavioral macroeconomics
Research group:Industrial, Innovation and International Economics
Language:English