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Tracing Out Capital Flows: How Financially Integrated Banks Respond to Natural Disasters

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  • Kristle Romero Cortes
  • Philip E. Strahan

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Multi-market banks reallocate capital when local credit demand increases after natural disasters. Following such events, credit in unaffected but connected markets declines by about 50 cents per dollar of additional lending in shocked areas, but most of the decline comes from loans in areas where banks do not own branches. Moreover, banks increase sales of more-liquid loans in order to lessen the impact of the demand shock on credit supply. Larger, multi-market banks appear better able than smaller ones to shield credit supplied to their core markets (those with branches) by aggressively cutting back lending outside those markets.

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  • Kristle Romero Cortes & Philip E. Strahan, 2014. "Tracing Out Capital Flows: How Financially Integrated Banks Respond to Natural Disasters," Working Papers (Old Series) 1412, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, revised 18 Sep 2014.
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    1. Schüwer, Ulrich & Lambert, Claudia & Noth, Felix, 2017. "How do banks react to catastrophic events? Evidence from Hurricane Katrina," SAFE Working Paper Series 94, Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE.
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    Keywords

    Branch Banking; Financial Integration; Securitization;

    JEL classification:

    • G20 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - General
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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