Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards

Review of Financial Studies

85 Pages Posted: 15 Jan 2020 Last revised: 9 Mar 2023

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Sudheer Chava

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business

Rohan Ganduri

Emory University

Nikhil Paradkar

University of Georgia

Linghang Zeng

Babson College - Finance Division

Date Written: July 31, 2018

Abstract

Using the near universe of U.S. consumer credit cards, we show that banks transmit their wholesale funding shocks to consumers by reducing their credit card limits. Credit-constrained consumers who are unable to hedge against the transmitted shock by accessing other credit cards experience a stronger and more persistent reduction in aggregate credit card limits at the consumer level. Consequently, these credit-constrained consumers reduce their aggregate credit card borrowing. Our results document a credit card lending channel for the transmission of adverse bank shocks and show who bears the costs of fragile bank funding structures.

Keywords: bank funding shock, consumer credit cards, borrowing

JEL Classification: G21, G51

Suggested Citation

Chava, Sudheer and Ganduri, Rohan and Paradkar, Nikhil and Zeng, Linghang, Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards (July 31, 2018). Review of Financial Studies, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3509356 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3509356

Sudheer Chava

Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business ( email )

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Rohan Ganduri (Contact Author)

Emory University ( email )

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Nikhil Paradkar

University of Georgia ( email )

Athens, GA 30602-6254
United States

Linghang Zeng

Babson College - Finance Division ( email )

Babson Park, MA 02457-0310
United States

HOME PAGE: http://sites.google.com/view/linghang-zeng

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