Banking on Technology: Bank Technology Adoption and Its Effects

Sheila Jiang, Alessandro Rebucci () and Gang Zhang

No 33551, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We develop and estimate a new model of endogenous growth in bank efficiency and firm productivity in which banks adopt technology embedded in capital goods produced by entrepreneurs, and agents choose whether to become workers or capital-good-producing entrepreneurs. In this framework, bank efficiency influences firm productivity by affecting agents' occupational choices, while firm productivity affects bank efficiency through the relative price of capital goods. We find that increasing technology adoption in the banking system to the level in the top half of the distribution in the data accelerates the economy's long-term growth from 2% to 2.17%. We also find that empirical evidence based on U.S. bank, metropolitan, and state-level data is consistent with the critical mechanisms of our model.

JEL-codes: G21 O3 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-03
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