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The second moments matter: The impact of macroeconomic uncertainty on the allocation of loanable funds

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ECONOMICS LETTERS
Volume 102, Issue 2, Pages 87-89

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.11.019

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Bank lending; Loanable funds; Macroeconomic uncertainty; Panel data

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This paper investigates how variations in macroeconomic uncertainty distort commercial banks' allocation of loanable funds by analyzing the dispersion of banks' total loan-to-asset ratios over a quarter-century period. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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