Arbeitspapier

Banks' financial distress, lending supply and consumption expenditure

We employ a unique identification strategy linking survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank-level data to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consump- tion expenditures. We show that households whose banks were more exposed to funding shocks report lower levels of non-mortgage liabilities. This, however, does not result in lower levels of consumption. Households compensate by drawing down liquid assets to smooth consumption in the face of a temporary adverse lending supply shock. The results contrast with recent evidence on the real effects of finance on firms' investment and employment decisions.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: SAFE Working Paper ; No. 39

Classification
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Financial Crises
Subject
Credit supply
banking
financial crisis
consumption expenditure
liquid assets
consumption smoothing

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Damar, H. Evren
Gropp, Reint E.
Mordel, Adi
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe
(where)
Frankfurt a. M.
(when)
2014

DOI
doi:10.2139/ssrn.2375103
Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Damar, H. Evren
  • Gropp, Reint E.
  • Mordel, Adi
  • Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe

Time of origin

  • 2014

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