Gomez, Matthieu; Landier, Augustin; Sraer, David; … - 2016
We show that the cash-flow exposure of banks to interest rate risk, or income gap, affects the transmission of monetary … policy shocks to bank lending and real activity. We first use a large panel of U.S. banks to show that the sensitivity of … bank profits to interest rates increases significantly with measured income gap, even when banks use interest rate …