What are the consequences of global banking for the international transmission of shocks? A quantitative analysis∗

Jose Fillat, Stefania Garetto and Arthur Smith
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Arthur Smith: Boston University

No dp-303, Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series from Boston University - Department of Economics

Abstract: The global financial crisis of 2008 was followed by a wave of regulatory reforms that affected large banks, especially those with a global presence. These reforms were reactive to the crisis. In this paper we propose a structural model of global banking that can be used proactively to perform counterfactual analysis on the effects of alternative regulatory policies. The structure of the model mimics the US regulatory framework and highlights the organizational choices that banks face when entering a foreign market: branching versus subsidiarization. When calibrated to match moments from a sample of European banks, the model is able to replicate the response of the US banking sector to the European sovereign debt crisis. Our counterfactual analysis suggests that pervasive subsidiarization, higher capital requirements, or ad hoc monetary policy interventions would have mitigated the effects of the crisis on US lending.

Keywords: global banks; banking regulation; shock transmission. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F23 F36 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2018-07, Revised 2018-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-ifn and nep-mon
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