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August 2002 Number 153 |
JEL classification: E50, E51, G22 |
Authors: Adam B. Ashcraft and Murillo Campello Building on recent evidence concerning the functioning of internal capital markets in financial conglomerates, we conduct a novel test of the balance-sheet channel of monetary policy. Specifically, we investigate how the response of lending to monetary policy differs across small banks that are affiliated with the same bank holding company but operate in different geographical areas. These banks face similar constraints in accessing internal and external sources of funds, but have different pools of borrowers. Because they typically concentrate their lending with small local businesses, we can exploit cross-sectional differences in local economic indicators at the time of a policy shock to study whether the strength of borrowers' balance sheets affects the response of bank lending. We find evidence that the negative response of bank loan growth to a monetary contraction is significantly stronger when borrowers have weaker balance sheets. |
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For a published version of this report, see Adam B. Ashcraft and Murillo Campello, "Firm Balance Sheets and Monetary Policy Transmission," Journal of Monetary Economics 54, no. 6 (September 2007): 1515-28. |
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