Bank-specific shocks and the real economy

Claudia Buch and Katja Neugebauer

Journal of Banking & Finance, 2011, vol. 35, issue 8, 2179-2187

Abstract: Governments often justify interventions into the financial system in the form of bail outs or liquidity assistance with the systemic importance of large banks for the real economy. In this paper, we analyze whether idiosyncratic shocks to loan growth at large banks have effects on real GDP growth. We employ a measure of idiosyncratic shocks which follows Gabaix (forthcoming). He shows that idiosyncratic shocks to large firms have an impact on US GDP growth. In an application to the banking sector, we find evidence that changes in lending by large banks have a significant short-run impact on GDP growth. Episodes of negative loan growth rates and the Eastern European countries in our sample drive these results.

Keywords: Granular; Residual; Idiosyncratic; shocks; Banking; sector; Size; effects; GDP; growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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