We integrate bank and bond financing into a two-sector neoclassical growth model to examine the stabilization effect of … endogenous bank leverage adjustment. We show that although bank leverage amplifies shocks, the increase of leverage to a decline … in bank equity is an automatic stabilizer in downturns, since it partially offsets the decline of bank lending to …

right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? Gabaix (2011) shows that idosyncratic shocks can … models of banking. Using a model with banks of heterogenous size who charge endogenous markups, we show under which …

Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? In this paper, we develop a theory of granularity … (Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate …

methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the … one banking relationship as long as they account for only a small share of the total loan volume of their banks. The … growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is decomposed into bank, firm, industry and common shocks. Adverse bank shocks …

modeling ; corporate net wealth shock ; loan productivity shock ; external financing ; shock construction ; historical … funds from households to entrepreneurs subject to a well defined loan production function. The loan productivity shock is … treated as the supply side financial disturbance. Together with NT.s net worth shock that resembles the credit demand …

We take a structural approach to assessing the empirical importance of shocks to the supply of bank … one-standard-deviation shock to credit supply generates a loss of output by 1 percent. …

This paper analyzes how bank lending to the private nonbank sector responds …

Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? In this paper, we develop a theory of granularity … (Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate …