Capital Market Frictions and Deposit Constraints at Banks
Capital Market Frictions and Deposit Constraints at Banks
复制标题
资本市场摩擦与银行存款限制
DOI:
10.2307/2601093
复制
发表时间:
2000
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Donald P. Morgan
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Jith Jayaratne;Donald P. Morgan
Following the investment-cash flow literature, we test whether bank lending is constrained by the availability of insured deposits--a necessary condition for the existence of a bank lending channel of monetary policy. We treat insured deposits as a type of "internal fund," similar to cash flows. We use a simple model to sort out the possible identification issues in interpreting the correlation between lending and deposit growth, including reverse causality and omitted-variable bias. To minimize the latter, we control for loan demand; we use Tobin's Q and other proxies. We also split the sample by capital ratios under the assumption that the frictions facing banks in capital markets should be most severe for poorly capitalized banks. The results are consistent with the existence of frictions in capital markets facing banks, and show that such frictions forge a link between the supply of bank loans and the supply of insured deposits. The frictions seem to matter only at small banks, suggesting that the potential for a bank lending channel is limited.