The impact of expanded bank powers on loan portfolio decisions

Gökhan Torna

Journal of Financial Stability, 2018, vol. 38, issue C, 1-17

Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of the integration of traditional and nontraditional banking activities on loan portfolio management at the consolidated level. The increased risk exposure to nontraditional banking assets, e.g., trading and merchant banking assets, has a nontrivial impact on traditional loan portfolios and, in particular, on the supply of short-term credits. The findings show that confronted with the market-wide shock of the financial crisis, commercial-focused banks which hold larger amounts of risky nontraditional banking assets gravitate their loan portfolios away from business and consumer loan sectors. The results from a quasi-natural experiment reveal that in response to an exogenous regulatory shock of FAS No. 166 and 167, which required banks to transfer off-balance sheet securitized loans onto bank balance sheets, securitizer banks tend to reduce business credits substantially more due to their pre-existing exposures to nontraditional assets.

Keywords: Loan portfolio management; Bank lending; Nontraditional banking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G00 G02 G11 G21 G24 G28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jfs.2018.07.002

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