The European Sovereign Crisis

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During the 2008- ‘09 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the European Sovereign Crisis (ESC) banks interrupted lines of credit to non-financial corporations. Discuss how the shortage of credit supply in the above-mentioned periods affected corporate failures and firms’ investment decisions.

Explain how forbearance lending contributes to the low output growth experienced after the GFC and ESC by economies/firms.