Banking globalization, monetary transmission and the lending channel

Nicola Cetorelli () and Linda S. Goldberg ()

No 2008,21, Discussion Paper Series 1: Economic Studies from Deutsche Bundesbank, Research Centre

Abstract: The globalization of banking in the United States is influencing the monetary transmission mechanism both domestically and in foreign markets. Using quarterly information from all U.S. banks filing call reports between 1980 and 2005, we find evidence for the lending channel for monetary policy in large banks, but only those banks that are domestically-oriented and without international operations. We show that the large globally-oriented banks rely on internal capital markets with their foreign affiliates to help smooth domestic liquidity shocks. We also show that the existence of such internal capital markets contributes to an international propagation of domestic liquidity shocks to lending by affiliated banks abroad. While these results imply a substantially more active lending channel than documented in the seminal work of Kashyap and Stein (2000), the lending channel within the United States is declining in strength as banking becomes more globalized.

Keywords: Lending channel; Bank; global; liquidity; transmission; internal capital markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F36 E44 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-mac and nep-mon
Date: 2008
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Working Paper: Banking Globalization, Monetary Transmission, and the Lending Channel (2008)
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