International Banking and Cross-Border Effects of Regulation: Lessons from the United States

37 Pages Posted: 23 Sep 2016

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Jose M. Berrospide

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Ricardo Correa

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Linda S. Goldberg

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Friederike Niepmann

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Date Written: September 6, 2016

Abstract

Domestic prudential regulation can have unintended effects across borders and may be less effective in an environment where banks operate globally. Using U.S. micro-banking data for the first quarter of 2000 through the third quarter of 2013, this study shows that some regulatory changes indeed spill over. First, a foreign country's tightening of limits on loan-to-value ratios and local currency reserve requirements increase lending growth in the United States through the U.S. branches and subsidiaries of foreign banks. Second, foreign tightening of capital requirements shifts lending by U.S. global banks away from the country where the tightening occurs to the United States and to other countries. Third, tighter U.S. capital regulation reduces lending by large U.S. global banks to foreign residents.

Keywords: Macroprudential policies, International banking, Bank credit, Spillovers

JEL Classification: F42, F44, G15, G21

Suggested Citation

Berrospide, Jose M. and Correa, Ricardo and Goldberg, Linda S. and Niepmann, Friederike, International Banking and Cross-Border Effects of Regulation: Lessons from the United States (September 6, 2016). FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1180, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2842508 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/IFDP.2016.1180

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