“Monetary Policy And Credit Risk A Bibliometric Review And Future Research Agenda”

Abstract

The paper investigates the mainstream direction of studies on monetary policy and credit risk through a bibliometric analysis covering a period from 1979 to September 2022. The study allows us to consider how past research on monetary policy and risk credit evolve, afterward the global economic-financial crisis of the recent past. The purpose of this study is to ascertain the intellectual progress, the features of authors, and manuscripts relating to monetary policy and credit risk, as well as to investigate the research tendency. The authors used a sample of 254 publications, collected from the Scopus database, and adopted VOS viewer software to elucidate various relational techniques: citation, co-citation, keyword co-occurrence, and bibliographic coupling analyses. This article advances a heterogeneity of results, concerning the most experienced authors at the magazine level, distribution of keywords, highly cited works, co-authorship, and more authoritative journals and authors. This method of analysis highlights the various stages of research in this field of research indicating the future trajectories worth exploring.