Financial Dampening

Johannes Wieland and Mu-Jeung Yang

No 22141, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We propose a novel mechanism, “financial dampening,” whereby loan retrenchment by banks attenuates the effectiveness of monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank holding companies (BHCs). We derive an IV-strategy that separates supply-driven loan retrenchment from local loan demand, by exploiting linkages through BHC-internal capital markets across spatially-separate BHC member-banks. We estimate that retrenching banks increase loan supply substantially less in response to exogenous monetary policy rate reductions. This relative decline has persistent effects on local employment and thus provides a rationale for slow recoveries from financial distress.

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Date: 2016-03
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Published as JOHANNES F. WIELAND & MU‐JEUNG YANG, 2020. "Financial Dampening," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol 52(1), pages 79-113.

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