Financial Integration and the Co-Movement of Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States

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Martin Richard Goetz

Deutsche Bundesbank - Research Centre; Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE

Juan Carlos Gozzi

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Date Written: November, 2020

Abstract

We analyze the effect of the geographic expansion of banks across U.S. states on the comovement of economic activity between states. Exploiting the removal of interstate banking restrictions to construct time-varying instrumental variables at the state-pair level, we find that bilateral banking integration increases output co-movement between states. The effect of financial integration depends on the nature of the idiosyncratic shocks faced by states and is stronger for more financially dependent industries. Finally, we show that integration (1) increases the similarity of bank lending fluctuations between states and (2) contributes to the transmission of deposit shocks across states.

JEL Classification: E32, F36, F44, G21

Suggested Citation

Goetz, Martin Richard and Gozzi, Juan Carlos, Financial Integration and the Co-Movement of Economic Activity: Evidence from U.S. States (November, 2020). International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1305, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3742689 or http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/IFDP.2020.1305

Martin Richard Goetz (Contact Author)

Deutsche Bundesbank - Research Centre ( email )

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Juan Carlos Gozzi

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ( email )

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United States

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