Mendicino, Caterina; Nikolov, Kalin; Rubio-Ramírez, … - 2020
frictions in which bank assets are a portfolio of defaultable loans. We show that ex-ante imperfect diversification of bank … lending generates bank asset returns with limited upside but significant downside risk. The asymmetric distribution of these … returns and their implications for the evolution of bank net worth are important for capturing the frequency and severity of …