Stress Tests and Small Business Lending

55 Pages Posted: 6 Mar 2018 Last revised: 28 Jan 2023

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Kristle Romero Cortés

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Banking and Finance

Yuliya Demyanyk

University of Illinois at Chicago

Lei Li

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Elena Loutskina

University of Virginia - Darden School of Business

Philip E. Strahan

Boston College - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: March 2018

Abstract

Post-crisis stress tests have altered banks’ credit supply to small business. Banks affected by stress tests reduce credit supply and raise interest rates on small business loans. Banks price the implied increase in capital requirements from stress tests where they have local knowledge, and exit markets where they do not, as quantities fall most in markets where stress-tested banks do not own branches near borrowers, and prices rise mainly where they do. These reductions in supply are concentrated among risky borrowers. Stress tests do not, however, reduce aggregate credit. Small banks increase their share in geographies formerly reliant on stress-tested lenders.

Suggested Citation

Cortés, Kristle Romero and Demyanyk, Yuliya and Li, Lei and Loutskina, Elena and Strahan, Philip E., Stress Tests and Small Business Lending (March 2018). NBER Working Paper No. w24365, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3134262

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