Competition and credit procyclicality in European banking

Aurélien Leroy and Yannick Lucotte

No wp2017-9, Bank of Estonia Working Papers from Bank of Estonia

Abstract: This paper empirically assesses the effects of competition in the financial sector on credit procyclicality by estimating both an interacted panel VAR (IPVAR) model using macroeconomic data and a single-equation model with bank-level European banking data. The findings of these two empirical approaches highlight that an exogenous deviation of actual GDP from potential GDP leads to greater credit fluctuation in economies where both competition among banks and competition from non-bank financial institutions or direct finance (proxied by the fi- nancial structure) are weak. According to the financial accelerator theory, if lower competition strengthens the cyclical behavior of financial intermediaries, it follows that these "endogenous developments in credit markets work to amplify and propagate shocks to the macroeconomy" (Bernanke et al., 1999). Furthermore, since credit booms are closely associated with future financial crises (Laeven and Valencia, 2012), our results can also be read as evidence that greater competition in the financial sphere reduces financial instability, which is in line with the competition-stability view denying the existence of a trade-off between competition and stability

Keywords: credit cycle; business cycle; bank competition; interacted panel VAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D40 E32 E51 G20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-09, Revised 2017-11-09
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