Franziska Bremus
DIW Berlin
German Institute for Economic Research
Mohrenstr. 58
10117 Berlin
Germany
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Institutional Affiliation: DIW Berlin
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NBER Working Papers and Publications
| May 2013 | Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity
with Claudia Buch, Katheryn Russ, Monika Schnitzer: w19093
Does the mere presence of big banks affect macroeconomic outcomes? In this paper, we develop a theory of granularity (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 fluctuations in the credit supply when the banking sector is highly concentrated. We empirically assess the relevance of these granular effects in banking using a linked micro-macro dataset of more than 80 countries for the years 1995-2009. The banking sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then demonstrate granular effects in the banking sector on macroeconomic ou... Published: FRANZISKA BREMUS & CLAUDIA M. BUCH & KATHERYN N. RUSS & MONIKA SCHNITZER, 2018. "Big Banks and Macroeconomic Outcomes: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence of Granularity," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, vol 50(8), pages 1785-1825. citation courtesy of 
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