(Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. 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 …

contribution is two-fold. First, we expand the theory of granularity to encompass the Bertrand competition frequently used in … right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …

We examine the impact of cross-border bank flows from source countries on the lending behavior of banks located in … effect of foreign macroprudential policy. Decomposing cross-border inflows into bank and non-bank flows, effects are entirely …

CCyB, especially relative to countries where a bank regulator or the central bank has the authority to set the CCyB. While …

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

, and bank mortgages are intertwined in what we call a deadly embrace. Without macroprudential policies, this deadly embrace …

(Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. 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 …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes for bank lending growth. The collective analysis has … three main findings. First, prudential instrument effects sometimes spill over across borders through bank lending. Second …, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank-specific factors like balance …