This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank …

by only comparing different branches of the same bank. Since deposits are the main source of liquid assets for households …. Since deposits are also a uniquely stable funding source for banks, the deposits channel impacts bank lending. When the Fed … estimates imply that the deposits channel can account for the entire transmission of monetary policy through bank balance sheets …

monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …

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 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 …