Heckmann, Lotta; Moertel, Julia - 2020
This paper shows that the supply side of credit is a major factor for the phenomenonof hampered interest rate pass …-through in monopolistic banking markets. Our data,covering all 1,555 small and medium sized banks in Germany, provides a clear … market rates from their depositors. Because high market-power banks inour sample are relatively more profitable, they seem to …