SFS Cavalcade North America 2026
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Virginia
May 18-21, 2026
Conference Agenda
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Track TH8-3: Depository Institutions and FinTech
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Deposit Competition Beyond Rates 1Berkeley Haas; 2Stanford GSB; 3Berkeley Haas We study competition and pass-through in the market for retail deposits. Federal funds rate increases are associated with only minimal increases in deposit rates. Leveraging new data on offers mailed by banks to households, we show that federal funds rate increases are strongly associated with changes in mail volumes, sign-up bonuses, and offers targeting new customers. These margins and not deposit rates are the primary ways in which interest rate changes affect the deposit market. We rationalize the use of these margins and not deposit rates in a simple model with active and sleepy depositors. Our model implies that the marginal value of a new depositor is insensitive to interest rates and that depositor heterogeneity and adverse selection, as opposed to market power, are the primary reasons why banks offer far less than the full present value of future rate spreads to depositors.
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