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Do negative policy rates hinder banks' transmission of monetary policy? To answer this question, we examine the behaviour of Italian mortgage lenders using a novel loan-level dataset. When policy rates turn negative, banks with higher ratios of retail overnight deposits to total assets charge...
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Negative monetary policy rates are associated with a particular friction because the remuneration of retail deposits tends to be floored at zero. We investigate whether this friction affects banks' reactions when the policy rate is lowered to negative levels, compared to a standard rate cut in...
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deposits tends to be floored at zero, which limits the transmission of policy rate cuts to bank funding costs. We investigate … and sheds some new light on results that associate NIRP with a contraction in bank loans, albeit in specific market …, pointing to a strong complementarity of NIRP with central bank liquidity injections, e.g. via asset purchases …
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how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the …
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inflation. Second, conditional on available estimates of the impact of the FED's and the Bank of England's asset purchase …
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We analyse the impact of standard and non-standard monetary policy measures on bank profitability. For empirical … identification, the analysis focuses on the euro area, thereby exploiting substantial bank and country heterogeneity within a … monetary union where the central bank has implemented a broad range of unconventional policies, including quantitative easing …
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We study how banks manage their liquidity among the various assets at their disposal. We exploit the introduction of the ECB’s two-tier system which heterogeneously reduced the cost of additional reserves holdings. We find that the treated banks increase reserve holdings by borrowing on the...
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the possibility of persistent central bank misperceptions. Such misperceptions motivate the search for policies that … significant cross-check with monetary information, when the New-Keynesian model is the central bank's preferred model. The cross …-check is shown to be effective in offsetting persistent deviations of inflation due to central bank misperceptions …
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We propose a shadow-rate term structure model for the euro area yield curve from 1999 to mid-2015, when bond yields had turned negative at various maturities. Yields in the model are constrained by a lower bound, but - as a special feature of our specification - the bound is allowed to change...
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) announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) in January 2015. The shock associated to the APP is identified with a combination …
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