address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks’ responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

institutional roof - banks or non-bank (shadow) banks - under which they are conducted. Our results reveal a declining role of banks … (and a commensurate increase in non-bank banking). These structural shifts (between institutions) are coincident with …