International Financial Integration, Crises, and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Euro Area Interbank Crises

48 Pages Posted: 7 Sep 2017

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Puriya Abbassi

Deutsche Bundesbank

Falk Bräuning

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Falko Fecht

Deutsche Bundesbank; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

José-Luis Peydró

Imperial College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

Date Written: July, 2017

Abstract

We analyze how financial crises affect international financial integration, exploiting euro area proprietary interbank data, crisis and monetary policy shocks, and variation in loan terms to the same borrower on the same day by domestic versus foreign lenders. Crisis shocks reduce the supply of crossborder liquidity, with stronger volume effects than pricing effects, thereby impairing international financial integration. On the extensive margin, there is flight to home ? but this is independent of quality. On the intensive margin, however, GIPS-headquartered debtor banks suffer in the Lehman crisis, but effects are stronger in the sovereign-debt crisis, especially for riskier banks. Nonstandard monetary policy improves interbank liquidity, but without fostering strong cross-border financial reintegration.

Keywords: financial integration, financial crises, cross-border lending, monetary policy, euro area sovereign crisis, liquidity

JEL Classification: E58, F30, G01, G21, G28

Suggested Citation

Abbassi, Puriya and Bräuning, Falk and Fecht, Falko and Peydro, Jose-Luis, International Financial Integration, Crises, and Monetary Policy: Evidence from the Euro Area Interbank Crises (July, 2017). FRB of Boston Working Paper No. 17-6, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3029742

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