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The second moments matter: The impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on the allocation of loanable funds

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Baum, Christopher F.
Caglayan, Mustafa
Ozkan, Neslihan

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This paper investigates how variations in macroeconomic uncertainty distort commercial banks' allocation of loanable funds by analyzing the dispersion of banks' total loan-to-asset ratios over a quarter-century period.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Economics Letters.

Volume (Year): 102 (2009)
Issue (Month): 2 (February)
Pages: 87-89
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Keywords: Bank lending Loanable funds Macroeconomic uncertainty Panel data;

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