Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross‐Country Evidence of Granularity

Franziska Bremus, Claudia Buch, Katheryn Russ and Monika Schnitzer ()

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2018, vol. 50, issue 8, 1785-1825

Abstract: Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? We develop a theory of granularity for the banking sector by modeling heterogeneous banks charging variable markups. Using data for a large set of countries, we show that the banking sector is indeed “granular,” as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We demonstrate empirically that the presence of big banks, measured by a high degree of market concentration, is associated with a positive and significant relationship between bank‐level credit growth and aggregate growth of credit or GDP.

Date: 2018
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Working Paper: Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity (2018)
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Working Paper: Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity (2013)
Working Paper: Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity (2013)
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