One of our main goals in analysing the flows of corporate credit is to trace the effect of a policy shock, such as the introduction of the CBA on the determinants of these flows. The theoretical literature suggests that policy may have an effect on credit supply and demand in various ways. Thus changes in monetary policy do affect banks’ and firms’ behavior due to the existence of a transmission mechanism through which monetary shocks affect real economic performance. The more traditional view of a money channel (or interest rate transmission mechanism) implies that monetary shocks affect the economy through.
