We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank …

. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then … concentration is associated with a positive and significant relationship between bank-level credit growth and aggregate growth of …

income gap. Secondly, we show that income gap also predicts the sensitivity of bank lending to interest rates. Quantitatively …, a 100 basis point increase in the Fed funds rate leads a bank at the 75th percentile of the income gap distribution to … increase lending by about 1.6 percentage points annually relative to a bank at the 25th percentile …

first examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty on aggregate bank credit growth. Then we analyze commercial bank … macroeconomic controls, economic policy uncertainty affected bank level credit growth, and (ii) whether there is variation in the … varies with bank level financial constraints, loan supply. We find that policy uncertainty has a significant negative effect …

We quantify the impact of bank market power on monetary policy transmission through banks to borrowers. We estimate a …-through of these costs to borrowers and depositors, while facing capital and reserve regulation. We find that bank market power … explains much of the transmission of monetary policy to borrowers, with an effect comparable to that of bank capital regulation …