Abstract
Do loan commitments cause overlending? Thakor (2005) argues that the answer is positive during economic booms, while we argue that the answer is also positive when uncertainty is realized about the equity return, but not about the business cycle. Under this view, if there is real overlending, realization switched to the business cycle from the equity return risk could lead to large bank inefficiencies.
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