“…Similarly, some studies have explored the same phenomenon for the EU countries (Cecchetti, 1999;Ehrmann & Smets, 2003;Kashyap & Stein, 1994;Santis & Surico, 2013). In the same vein, several other empirical studies including Anwar and Nguyend (2018), Auclert (2017), Bernanke, Lown, and Friedman (1991), Gertler and Gilchrist (1993), Jermann (2019) and Wong (2000) also found significant evidence, favouring the credit channel of MPTM.…”