Bank lending channel effectiveness : potential lessons for monetary policy

The article supplements the research on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission - especially through the bank lending channel. The current study focuses on assessing the transmission of monetary impulses through commercial and cooperative banks as well as through individual loan portfolios, while distinguishing between the fact that they were granted by commercial and cooperative banks. How a change in the central bank's interest rates may determine a change in the volume of loans in the economy remains the core question of the research.