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 …

We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel …

system worse off. By contrast, constrained central bank intervention to lower rates maintains private discipline, while …

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 …

Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional—deposit-taking—banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …

issuance of common stock was negative due to repurchases. We assume that, in the absence of capital requirements, a bank has an … optimal capital structure that depends on its business model. Capital requirements can impose constraints on bank decisions …. If a bank's optimal capital structure also meets regulatory capital requirements with a sufficient buffer, the bank is …

We study a modification of the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model in which the bank may hold a liquid asset, some … depositors see sunspots that could lead them to run, and all depositors have incomplete information about the bank's ability to … survive a run. The incomplete information means that the bank is not automatically incentivized to always hold enough liquid …