Integration Among US Banks

60 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2019 Last revised: 13 Jun 2022

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Abhinav Anand

IIM Bangalore

John Cotter

University College Dublin

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Date Written: June 13, 2022

Abstract

We define ‘integration’ for 2287 US banks from 1993–2019 as the explanatory power of common banking factors in explaining stock returns. Integration has risen steadily, and shows significantly high peaks during financial crises. This is worrisome, since a negative shock to common factors depresses sector-wide returns more intensely when the sector is tightly integrated. The Dodd-Frank Act has improved capital adequacy but has not arrested rising levels of integration. Further, banks’ current integration predicts their instability up to 4 quarters in advance; and during crises, past integration levels explain a healthy (6–7%) variation in US banks’ volatilities.

Keywords: Bank integration; Banking crises; Systemically important banks; Bank risk; Principal component regressions

JEL Classification: G10, G21, G28, C32, C33, C38, C58

Suggested Citation

Anand, Abhinav and Cotter, John, Integration Among US Banks (June 13, 2022). IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 597/2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3460375 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3460375

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