E-Stability : über die Lernbarkeit von rationalen Erwartungsgleichgewichten

This paper addresses the credit channel in Germany by using aggregate data. We present a stylized model of the banking firm, in which banks de-cide on their loan supply in the light of uncertainty about the future course of monetary policy. Applying a vector error correction model (VECM),we estimate the response of bank loans after a monetary policy shock in consideration of the reaction of the output level and the loan rate. Weestimate our model to characterize the response of bank loans by matching the theoretical impulse responses with the empirical impulse responses toa monetary policy shock. Evidence in support of the credit channel can be reported