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Banking Stability: The Impact of Financial Sector Heterogeneity on Systemic Risk in Financial Crises and Economic Recessions

In: Banking Resilience and Global Financial Stability

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  • Carlos León
  • Zihao Liu
  • Luc Renneboog

Abstract

Financial institutions’ heterogeneity, a high degree of dissimilarity across multiple dimensions, including business focuses, correlated asset holdings, capital structures, and funding sources, reduces systemic risk. We empirically test this hypothesis using a bank holding company (BHC) level heterogeneity index based on granular balance sheet, income statements, cash flow statements, and off-balance-sheet information for U.S. bank holding companies over a sample period spanning the second quarter of 2000 to the fourth quarter of 2021. We find that the BHC-level heterogeneity negatively correlates with BHC-level systemic risk, SRISK, measured both at the global and local levels. We also construct a sector-heterogeneity index and demonstrate that a reduction of heterogeneity occurred in the U.S. financial sector prior to both the Great Recession (2007–2009) and the COVID-19 Recession, especially for the largest BHCs. As such, a declining level of financial sector heterogeneity may exacerbate the consequences of systemic shocks.

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  • Carlos León & Zihao Liu & Luc Renneboog, 2024. "Banking Stability: The Impact of Financial Sector Heterogeneity on Systemic Risk in Financial Crises and Economic Recessions," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Sabri Boubaker & Marwa Elnahass (ed.), Banking Resilience and Global Financial Stability, chapter 6, pages 151-190, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781800614321_0006
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    Keywords

    Bank capital; Capital Buffers; Financial Stability; Macroprudential Regulation; Systemic Risks; Accounting Standards; Bank Stability; Financial Reporting; Local GAAP; IAS/IFRS; Lending Risk; Bank Capitalization; Bank Risk-Taking; Credit Risk; Asian Banks; Stability; Financial Development; Banking System; Growth; Regression; Human Resources; Trade: Population; Emerging Economies; Human Capital; Financial Stability; Intellectual Capital Efficiency; Human Capital Efficiency; Structural Capital Efficiency; Relational Capital Efficiency; Resources Based Theory; System Generalize Method of Moments; Competitive Environment; Islamic Banks; Asian Countries; Banking; Regulatory Capital; Bank Performance; Basel Accord; Profitability; Risk; Minimal Capital Requirements; Political Instability; Bank Supervision; 2SLS; Financial Institutions; Bank Holding Companies; Great Recession: FDIC; Financial Markets; Financial Crises; Economic Recessions; Heterogeneity; Systemic Risk; Dodd Frank; Foreign Exchange; Systemic Risk; Turkish Banking Sector; Volatility; Foreign Loans; Domestic Loans; Total Assets; Total Credits; Total Deposits; Interest Rates; Financial Crisis; Risk Management; Competency Development; Banks; Integrated; Resilience; Uncertainty; Pandemic; Risk; Actionable; Financial Stability; Systemic Risk; Crisis Management; Bank Recovery and Resolution; Capital Requirements; Climate Physical Risk; Climate Transition Risk; Digital Finance; Safety Net; Twin Transition; Market Illiquidity; Monetary Policy; Bank Lending Channel; Banks; Shocks; Loan Supply; OECD Countries; Financial Crisis; Interest Rates; Transmission Mechanism; European Monetary Union; European Central Bank; ECB Governing Council; Expansionary Monetary Policy; Trilemma; TARGET2-Balance; Inflation; Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI); ECB Anti-Fragmentation Instrument; Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program (PEPP); Credit-to-GDP Gap; Out-of-Sample Forecasts; Augmented Credit Gap; Countercyclical Capital Buffer; Credit Gap; Decision-making Process; Basel Gap; Forecasting Gaps; One-Sided Gap Series; Two-Sided Gap Series; Altman; Z-Score; Economic Distress; Kazakhstan; Banks; Emerging Market; Multiple Discriminant Analysis; Financial Health; Prediction Accuracy; Wilks' Approach; Direct Approach; Microfinance; Microfinance Institutions; Global Financial Crisis; Covid-19; Social Outreach; Financial Sustainability; Operational Self-Sufficiency; NGOs; Capital Structure; Legal Status; Liquidity Hoarding; Economic Policy Uncertainty; Qatari Banks; Islamic Banks; Endogeneity; Instrumental Variable Approach; Economic Blockade; Asset-Side Liquidity Hoarding; Liability-Side Liquidity Hoarding; Gulf Cooperation Council;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation

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