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Credit effects in the monetary mechanism
Lown, Cara S.; Morgan, Donald P. (2002-05)
Paper for a conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York entitled Financial Innovation and Monetary Transmission
Economic Policy Review , Volume 8 , Issue May , Pages 217-235

Journal Article
Local or state? Evidence on bank market size using branch prices
Morgan, Donald P.; Edelstein, Paul (2006-05)
With the elimination of state laws against branching, banks can now compete across states. They are no longer limited to competing in local markets, defined by the Federal Reserve as metropolitan statistical areas or small groups of rural counties. Accordingly, a "local or state?" debate over market size is taking place among researchers, with some arguing that banking markets are statewide and others contending that they remain local. This article contributes to the debate with a novel, arguably better, indicator of market size: bank branch prices, as opposed to bank deposit rates. The ...
Economic Policy Review , Volume 12 , Issue May , Pages 15-25

Conference Paper
Bond market discipline of banks
Morgan, Donald P.; Stiroh, Kevin J. (2000)
Proceedings , Paper 687

Report
The information value of the stress test and bank opacity
Peristiani, Stavros; Savino, Vanessa; Morgan, Donald P. (2010)
We investigate whether the ?stress test,? the extraordinary examination of the nineteen largest U.S. bank holding companies conducted by federal bank supervisors in 2009, produced the information demanded by the market. Using standard event study techniques, we find that the market had largely deciphered on its own which banks would have capital gaps before the stress test results were revealed, but that the market was informed by the size of the gap; given our proxy for the expected gap, banks with larger capital gaps experienced more negative abnormal returns. Our findings suggest that the ...
Staff Reports , Paper 460

Report
COVID Response: The Main Street Lending Program
Arseneau, David M.; Fillat, Jose; Mahar, Molly; Morgan, Donald P.; Van den Heuvel, Skander J. (2021-09-01)
The Main Street Lending Program was created to support credit to small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofit organizations that were harmed by the pandemic, particularly those that were unsupported by other pandemic-response programs. It was the most direct involvement in the business loan market by the Federal Reserve since the 1930s and 1940s. Main Street operated by buying 95 percent participations in standardized loans from lenders (mostly banks) and sharing the credit risk with them. It would end up supporting loans to more than 2,400 borrowers and co-borrowers across the United ...
Staff Reports , Paper 984

Report
Bank integration and business volatility
Rime, Bertrand; Morgan, Donald P.; Strahan, Philip E. (2000-12-01)
We investigate how bank migration across state lines over the last quarter century has affected the size and covariance of business fluctuations within states. Starting with a two-state version of the unit banking model in Holmstrom and Tirole (1997), we conclude that the theoretical effect of integration on business cycle size is ambiguous, because some shocks are dampened by integration while others are amplified. Empirically, we find that integration diminishes employment growth fluctuations within states and decreases the deviations in employment growth across states. In other words, ...
Staff Reports , Paper 129

Discussion Paper
Up on Main Street
Morgan, Donald P.; Clampitt, Steph (2021-02-05)
The Main Street Lending Program was the last of the facilities launched by the Fed and Treasury to support the flow of credit during the COVID-19 pandemic. The others primarily targeted Wall Street borrowers; Main Street was for smaller firms that rely more on banks for credit. It was a complicated program that worked by purchasing loans and sharing risk with lenders. Despite its delayed launch, Main Street purchased more debt than any other facility and was accelerating when it closed in January 2021. This post first locates Main Street in the constellation of COVID-19 credit programs, then ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20210205

Discussion Paper
Piggy Banks
Samolyk, Katherine A.; Morgan, Donald P. (2013-05-29)
What do banks do? Ask an economist and you’ll get a variety of answers. Banks play a vital role in allocating capital by linking savers and borrowers; they produce information by screening and monitoring borrowers; they create liquidity; they share and distribute risk; they engage in maturity transformation by borrowing short and lending long. What you won’t usually hear is that banks may help people stick to an optimal savings plan that they might not be able to stick to if they invested their money themselves. In other words, banks may serve as piggy banks by preventing people from ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20130529

Discussion Paper
Do Payday Lenders Target Minorities
Pan, Kevin J.; Morgan, Donald P. (2012-02-08)
Payday lenders make small, short-term loans to millions of households across the country. Though popular with users, the credit is controversial in part because payday lenders are accused of targeting their seemingly high-priced credit at minority households. In this post, we look at whether black and Hispanic households are in fact more likely to use payday credit. We find that, unconditionally, they are, but once we control for financial characteristics?such as past delinquency, debt-to-income ratios, and credit availability, blacks and Hispanics are not significantly more likely than ...
Liberty Street Economics , Paper 20120208

Journal Article
Trends in financial market concentration and their implications for market stability
Peristiani, Stavros; Cetorelli, Nicola; Morgan, Donald P.; Hirtle, Beverly; Santos, Joao A. C. (2007-03)
The link between financial market concentration and stability is a topic of great interest to policymakers and other market participants. Are concentrated markets - those where a relatively small number of firms hold large market shares - inherently more prone to disruption? This article considers that question by drawing on academic studies as well as introducing new analysis. Like other researchers, the authors find an ambiguous relationship between concentration and instability when a large firm in a concentrated market fails. In a complementary review of concentration trends across a ...
Economic Policy Review , Volume 13 , Issue Mar , Pages 33-51

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