BHC Loan Growth¶
Definition¶
The natural logarithm of a bank's total loans in the current quarter, divided by its total loans in the previous quarter.2 Here the total loans are measures by BHCK2122
in FR Y-9C reports. This item represents the proportion of a bank's total loans that do not exclude the allowance for loans and lease losses.
where BHCK2122
is from the Bank Holding Company data by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.1
Warning
A caveat is that if \text{BHCK2122}_{i,t} is 0, then this measure would be invalid as \ln(0) is undefined. In this case, I replace it with -1 which means the total loans is reduced by 100% to 0.
An alternative measure of loan growth, the percentage change in the total loans, is not affected by this issue.
Their correlation is over 99%.
Equivalent Stata Code¶
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Reference¶
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https://www.chicagofed.org/banking/financial-institution-reports/bhc-data. ↩
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This definition is from Zheng (2020 JBF). ↩