Credit-strapped Canadians continued to consume in wake of crisis

'Lending supply effect' compensated for Canada's credit crunch

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Customers of Canadian banks that cut lending sharply following the financial crisis did not curtail consumption as a result, according to a Bank of Canada working paper. Instead, they compensated by drawing down liquid assets – a so-called lending supply effect.

Banks' Financial Distress, Lending Supply and Consumption Expenditure by Evren Damar, Reint Gropp and Adi Mordel, employs a "unique identification strategy" that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank-level data

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