[...]This paper investigates whether the cyclical effects ofmonetary policy have been influenced by the secular growth insecuritization in recent decades. In particular, when the centralbank makes a specific monetary policy move—such asincreasing the overnight interbank rate by 50 basis...

[...]This article documents the “return in retail” in the U.S.banking industry and offers some insight into why this shift hasoccurred. Trends in retail loan shares, retail deposit shares, thebalance sheets of U.S. consumers, and the number of bankbranches all indicate an increased focus on...

[...]Our analysis of how U.S. financial market structure haschanged over the last decade produces more definitiveconclusions. Using firm-level data from a variety of sources, including data collected by central banks, we document that inaggregate, most U.S. wholesale credit and capital markets...