What are the Consequences of Global Banking for the International Transmission of Shocks? A Quantitative Analysis

38 Pages Posted: 29 Oct 2018 Last revised: 14 May 2023

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Jose L. Fillat

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Stefania Garetto

Boston University

Arthur Smith

Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics, Students

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Date Written: October 2018

Abstract

The global financial crisis of 2008 was followed by a wave of regulatory reforms that affected large banks, especially those with a global presence. These reforms were reactive to the crisis.In this paper we propose a structural model of global banking that can be used proactively to perform counterfactual analysis on the effects of alternative regulatory policies. The structure of the model mimics the US regulatory framework and highlights the rganizational choices that banks face when entering a foreign market: branching versus subsidiarization. When calibrated to match moments from a sample of European banks, the model is able to replicate the response of the US banking sector to the European sovereign debt crisis. Our counterfactual analysis suggests that pervasive subsidiarization, higher capital requirements, or ad hoc monetary policy interventions would have mitigated the effects of the crisis on US lending.

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Fillat, Jose L. and Garetto, Stefania and Smith, Arthur, What are the Consequences of Global Banking for the International Transmission of Shocks? A Quantitative Analysis (October 2018). NBER Working Paper No. w25203, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3274429

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