Download or read book Heterogeneous Bank Lending Responses to Monetary Policy written by Mr.John C Bluedorn and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-05-22 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present new evidence on how heterogeneity in banks interacts with monetary policy changes to impact bank lending. Using an exogenous policy measure identified from narratives on FOMC intentions and real-time economic forecasts, we find much greater heterogeneity in U.S. bank lending responses than that found in previous research based on realized federal funds rate changes. Our findings suggest that studies using realized monetary policy changes confound the monetary policy’s effects with those of changes in expected macrofundamentals. We also extend Romer and Romer (2004)’s identification scheme, and expand the time and balance sheet coverage of the U.S. banking sample.