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The effect of monetary tightening on local banks

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  • Rocco Huang

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This study shows that during Paul Volcker?s drastic monetary tightening in the early 1980s, local banks operating in only one county reduced loan supply much more sharply than local subsidiaries of multi-county bank holding companies in similar markets, after controlling for bank (and holding company) size, liquidity, capital conditions, and, most important, local credit demand. The study allows cleaner identification by examining 18 U.S. ?county-banking states? where a bank?s local lending volume at the county level was observable because no one was allowed to branch across county borders. The local nature of lending allows us to approximate and control for the exogenous component of local loan demand using the prediction that counties with a higher share of manufacturing employment exhibit weaker loan demand during tightening (which is consistent with the interest rate channel and the balance-sheet channel of monetary policy transmission).The study sheds light on the working of the bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission.

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  • Rocco Huang, 2008. "The effect of monetary tightening on local banks," Working Papers 08-20, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
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    1. Jose M. Berrospide & Lamont K. Black & William R. Keeton, 2013. "The cross-market spillover of economic shocks through multi-market banks," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2013-52, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
    2. Hatira Sadeghzadeh Emsen, 2021. "Effects of US Federal Reserve Monetary Policies on Financial Markets and Commodity Prices: An Econometric Analysis with a Structural Break for Developed and Developing Countries," Journal of Economy Culture and Society, Istanbul University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 64(64), pages 233-255, December.
    3. Robert Clark & Hui Wang & Victor Aguirregabiria, 2017. "The Geographic Flow Of Bank Funding And Access To Credit: Branch Networks And Local-market Competition," Working Paper 1402, Economics Department, Queen's University.
    4. William R. Keeton, 2009. "Has multi-market banking changed the response of small business lending to local economic shocks?," Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, vol. 94(Q I), pages 5-35.

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