Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/188891 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1379
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
From 1996 to 2015, total assets at Canadian and foreign banks operating in Canada grew four-times in size. This growth occurred with neither a significant regulatory change, such as the repeal of Glass-Steagall, nor the introduction of new business lines, such as wealth management or investment banking. Using data from CANSIM and a little used dataset from OSFI, I describe how the Canadian banks earn revenue, fund business activities, and pay expenses. The success of the Canadian banking system can be attributed to: i) a focus on retail and branch-level banking, ii) a preference for deposit-financing, and iii) minimizing costs, particularly noninterest expenses. Furthermore, I provide a broad overview of the data, accounting rules, and trends in Canadian banking. Estimating a reduced form model similar to DeBoskey and Jiang (2012), I find no evidence that the Canadian banks manipulated the provision for credit losses to ‘smooth’ earnings.
Subjects: 
Bank
Bank Lending
Borrowing
Commercial Banks
Financial Intermediaries
Retail Bank
Canada
Canadian
JEL: 
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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