recognizing greater risks and losses, can lead to solvency problems that look like liquidity (bank-run) crises. Regulatory …

hedge to fund drawn credit lines and other commitments. We shed new light on this issue by studying the behavior of bank …

Existing macroeconomic models focused on bank balance sheet lending are deficient because they do not account for the … investigate two increasingly significant margins of adjustment in credit markets: banks' ability to sell loans and shadow bank … following bank capital shock. Recovery is also faster, because profitable loan sales (e.g., securitization) allow banks to build …

Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent … expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non … effects are due to increased competition for local resources …

bank risk taking, commercial bank failure, interest rates on loans, and market structure. We propose a market structure … addition to aggregate shocks to the fraction of performing loans in their portfolio. A nontrivial bank size distribution arises … consistent with untargeted business cycle properties, the bank lending channel, and empirical studies of the role of …

We study how heterogeneity in banks' asset holdings affects fragility. In the model, banks face a risk of bank runs and … sell their assets at the same time. When banks are homogeneous, their selling behaviors are synchronized, and bank runs are …

separate firm-borrowing shocks from bank-supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose … aggregate loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks. The high degree of … role for granular shocks as in Gabaix (2011). We show that idiosyncratic granular bank-supply shocks explain 30-40 percent …