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Bank capital, loan activity, and monetary policy: evidence from the FDIC’s Historical Statistics on Banking

Author: Paul E. Orzechowski

Published in: Journal of Economics and Finance | Issue 2/2017

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This study utilizes the FDIC’s Historical Statistics on Banking from 1966 to 2013 to analyze the long-run relationship between federal funds rate policy, bank capital, and lending at U.S. commercial banks. The empirical analysis uses an autoregressive model to examine loan activity between two different groups of banks with different bank capital structures (high and low capital banks). The results of the study show that commercial loans at high capital banks have a stronger relationship to changes in the federal funds rates than low capital banks. Real estate loans show a slightly stronger negative correlation with federal funds for high capital banks than banks with low capital levels. The change in the portfolio ratio between real estate to commercial loans is negatively related to monetary policy changes.

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The pooled GLS regression approach used in this study should be appropriate. Panel regression for fixed effects or random effects may be inappropriate since testing by F-Test (or Wald tests on the significance of the alternative intercepts) and the Hausman test indicate that pooled approach is more appropriate.

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The FFR is obtained from the Federal Reserve Bank’s website listed within the H.15 data series.

The study did experiment with using the Livingston Survey’s forecast of GDP provided by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, but this variable offered no improvement over the actual GDP and may have introduced higher order serial correlation.

The study was not able to use the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Senior Loan Officers because of a gap between 1984 and 1990. This survey would be useful in controlling for changing credit standards at banks. The study also tested the first difference between the 3-month U.S. Treasury Bill rate and the Moody’s BAA corporate bond yield as a proxy for credit risk, but the variable was insignificant and not used.

The autoregressive technique transforms the baseline linear model into a nonlinear model. The transformed nonlinear model’s coefficients are then estimated using a Marquardt nonlinear least squares algorithm. This autoregressive approach seeks to minimize the direct usage of the lagged dependent variable. See: Davison and MacKinnon (Davidson and MacKinnon 2004, pp. 214–215).

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A time trend dummy was test and subsequently dropped since it was insignificant. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) recession dummy years were test, but were insignificant and not included.

Full results for all the independent variables like GDP are available upon request and were left out to save space. GDP was highly significant and used as a control variable.

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Title: Bank capital, loan activity, and monetary policy: evidence from the FDIC’s Historical Statistics on Banking
Author: Paul E. Orzechowski
Publication date: 29-02-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Economics and Finance / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1055-0925
Electronic ISSN: 1938-9744
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12197-016-9359-5

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