The results of our tests examining the effect of delay in expected loss recognition on lending are presented in Table 5. The first column reports the flow measure results, the second column the stock measure results, and the third column the market measure results. Note that in Table 5, we only report results using banks with total asset greater than $500 million since we find that only these banks experience a capital crunch. Consistent with H3, we find that loan growth is lower during recessions for banks with greater delays in expected loss recognition, compared to those with smaller delays for all of our measures. The difference in lending between more and less delay banks during recessions is economically significant. For example, using the flow measure, greater delay banks cut lending by 2.1% in recessions, but smaller delay banks only reduce lending by 0.5%. These results suggest that banks with greater delays, which may have greater capital adequacy concerns arising from a need to record higher provisions during recessions, reduce their lending more, potentially to avoid a capital shortage. Finally, all three measures also show evidence consistent with H4. Explicitly, we find that the coefficients on Capital R1nRecession are lower for banks with smaller delays, suggesting that the capital crunch effect is weaker for banks with smaller delays. Again, the difference is economically significant: for greater delay banks the lending-capital ratio sensitivity increases by 0.214 in recessions, but it only increases by 0.076 for smaller delay banks