Bank Asset Concentration Not Necessarily Cause for Worry

Ricardo Fernholz and Christoffer Koch

Economic Letter, 2017, vol. 12, issue 7, 4 pages

Abstract: U.S. banking assets have become substantially more concentrated within a few large institutions. However, decreasing relative rates of big-bank growth and of idiosyncratic volatility?an indicator of individual bank susceptibility to shocks and a resulting redistribution of assets?suggest a reduction in systemic financial system risk through contagion.

Date: 2017
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