Exploiting the staggered state-level adoption of the Riegle-Neal Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (IBBEA), we examine whether and how banking deregulation affects firms’ auditor choices. We find that an exogenous increase in the degree of interstate branch banking deregulation...

This paper analyzes the design of simple macroprudential rules for bank and non-bank credit markets in a medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. In the model, mutual funds support corporate bond issuance by firms with access to capital markets; a banking sector supplies loans...

This paper identifies shocks to bank credit supply based on firms’ aggregate debt composition. I use a model where firms fund production with bonds and loans. Only bank shocks imply opposite movements in the two types of debt as firms adjust their debt composition to new credit conditions. I...

Recently, central banks around the world have relied mostly on nontraditional policy tools to stimulate economic activity. A distinctive example is the expansion of the size of central bank balance sheets through the purchase of long-term government securities. In this paper we analyze the...

Recently, central banks around the world have relied mostly on nontraditional policy tools to stimulate economic activity. A distinctive example is the expansion of the size of central bank balance sheets through the purchase of long-term government securities. In this paper we analyze the...

Motivated by empirical evidence I document on local credit markets in France using data on more than 3.5 million bank-firm relationships, I propose a theory of bank-firm matching, subject to search frictions. Firms undergo a costly search process to locate and match with the right banking...

The modern financial system features complicated financial intermediation chains, with each layer performing a certain degree of credit/maturity transformation. We develop a dynamic model in which an entrepreneur borrows from overlapping-generation households via layers of funds, forming a...

In this paper we build a model of occupational choice with informal production and progressive income taxation. We calibrate the model to the Brazilian economy to evaluate the impact of removing financial frictions on informality. We find that financial deepening leads to a drop in the size of...