The Transmission of Financial Shocks and Leverage of Financial Institutions: An Endogenous Regime Switching Framework
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The Transmission of Financial Shocks and Leverage of Financial Institutions: An Endogenous Regime Switching Framework
The Transmission of Financial Shocks and Leverage of Financial Institutions: An Endogenous Regime Switching Framework
The Transmission of Financial Shocks and Leverage of Financial Institutions: An Endogenous Regime-Switching Framework
Date Written: December 23, 2020
Abstract
We conduct a novel empirical analysis of the role of leverage of financial institutions for the transmission of financial shocks to the macroeconomy. For that purpose we develop an endogenous regime-switching structural vector autoregressive model with time-varying transition probabilities that depend on the state of the economy. We propose new identification techniques for regime switching models.
Recently developed theoretical models emphasize the role of bank balance sheets for the build-up of financial instabilities and the amplification of financial shocks. We build a market-based measure of leverage of financial institutions employing institution-level data and find empirical evidence that real effects of financial shocks are amplified by the leverage of financial institutions in a financial-constraint regime. We also find evidence of heterogeneity in how depository financial institutions, global systemically important banks and selected nonbank financial institutions affect the transmission of shocks to the macroeconomy. Our results confirm the leverage ratio as a useful indicator from a policy perspective.
Keywords: Regime switching models, time-varying transition probabilities, financial shocks, leverage, bank and non-bank financial institutions, heterogeneity
JEL Classification: C55, G23, C11, C32, C53, E44, G21
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