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Financial Dampening

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  • Mu-Jeung Yang

    (University of Washington, Seattle)

  • Johannes Wieland

    (University of California, San Diego)

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We propose a novel mechanism, 'financial dampening,' whereby financial sector deleveraging attenuates the effectiveness of monetary policy. In our model of financial intermediation, where banks have leverage targets and asymmetric portfolio adjustment costs, deleveraging banks will have a lower pass-through from reductions in policy rates to credit supply. We find consistent evidence for financial dampening in micro-data on U.S. regulated financial intermediaries. We instrument deleveraging at local banks using average deleveraging at spatially-separate banks of the same bank holding company to isolate local deleveraging independent of local demand conditions. We find that in response to a 1% monetary policy shock, a bank at the 25th percentile of the deleveraging distribution increases its loan growth by 3.70% more than a bank at the 75th percentile according to our baseline specification. Thus, our mechanism provides a rationale for why recoveries from financial crisis may be slow.

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  • Mu-Jeung Yang & Johannes Wieland, 2015. "Financial Dampening," 2015 Meeting Papers 1022, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed015:1022
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    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • 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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