Arbeitspapier

Government banks and interventions in credit markets

We study a large-scale quasi-experiment in the Brazilian banking sector characterized by an unexpected and macroeconomically relevant increase in lending by commercial government banks. Using credit registry data, we find that this intervention led to a reduction in lending rates, but it did not lead to a change in private banks' credit supply. Firms reliant on government banks experienced a substantial increase in debt, and government banks faced a large increase in loan defaults driven by indebted firms. We find a small increase in employment at the firm level, suggesting limited direct benefits of the intervention. At the regional level, we find that branch presence cannot explain credit growth due to cross-market borrowing. Once we account for this channel, we find real effects at the regional level that are substantially larger than those at the firm level, emphasizing the general-equilibrium effects of large-scale interventions.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Papers ; No. 22-20

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation
Thema
credit market interventions
credit supply shocks
government banks

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Joaquim, Gustavo
Netto, Felipe
Ornelas, José Renato Haas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
(wo)
Boston, MA
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.29412/res.wp.2022.20
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Joaquim, Gustavo
  • Netto, Felipe
  • Ornelas, José Renato Haas
  • Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Entstanden

  • 2022

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