• Are Bank Lending Shocks Important for Economic Fluctuations? 

      Halvorsen, Jørn Inge; Jacobsen, Dag Henning (Working Papers;27/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      We analyze the importance of bank lending shocks on real activity in Norway and the UK, using structural VARs and based on quarterly data for the past 21 years. The VARs are identified using a combination of sign and ...
    • The interaction between macroprudential and monetary policies: The cases of Norway and Sweden 

      Cao, Jin; Dinger, Valeriya; Grodecka-Messi, Anna; Juelsrud, Ragnar; Zhang, Xin (Working Paper;8/2020, Working paper, 2020)
      To shed light on the interaction between macroprudential and monetary policies, we study the inward transmission of foreign monetary policy in conjunction with domestic macroprudential and monetary policies in Norway and ...
    • Strategic Bank Monitoring and Firms’ Debt Structure 

      Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard (Working Papers;10/2005, Working paper, 2005)
      Firms choose debt structure and competing banks choose monitoring intensity. Monitoring improves credit allocation, but creates informational lock-in effects in bank-borrower relationships. In a competitive credit market, ...