Gelman, Michael; Goldstein, Itay; MacKinlay, Andrew - 2022
In this paper, we show the benefits of bank asset diversification for the economy. A more diversified stream of … positive spillovers to the economy. We demonstrate that this diversification-induced lending resiliency is beneficial during … as exogenous shocks to identify the causal effect of asset diversification. Our results speak to the long-standing debate …