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Does the bank lending channel of monetary transmission work in Turkey? Using the May- June 2006 financial turbulence as … response of Turkey''s banks, depending on their balance sheet characteristics. The empirical results indicate that banks can … play a role in Turkey''s monetary transmission mechanism. Specifically, bank liquidity is found to have a significant …
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We study the transmission of monetary shocks across euro-area countries using a dynamic factor model and high-frequency identification. We develop a methodology to assess the degree of heterogeneity, which we find to be low in financial variables and output, but significant in consumption,...
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Has monetary policy in advanced economies been less effective since the global financial crisis because of deteriorating household balance sheets? This paper examines the question using household data from the United States. It compares the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary...
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during the financial crisis in the United States. We focus on mortgage lending to minimize the impact of confounding demand … disaggregated data on mortgage applications that we use allows us to study the time variations in banks' decisions to grant mortgage …
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This paper assesses the effectiveness of lending restriction measures, such as loan-to-value and debt-service-to-income ratios, in affecting developments in house prices and credit. We use data on 99 lending standard restrictions implemented in 28 EU countries over 1990-2018. The results suggest...
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mortgage interest rate leads to a 20 percent decrease in a typical bank''s distance to default. Finally, we look at the cross …
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during the financial crisis in the United States. We focus on mortgage lending to minimize the impact of confounding demand … disaggregated data on mortgage applications that we use allows us to study the time variations in banks’ decisions to grant mortgage … credit significantly more than retail-funded banks during the crisis. The demand for mortgage credit, on the other hand …
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This paper analyzes the drivers of cross-border bank lending to 49 Emerging Markets (EMs) during the period 1990Q1-2014Q4, by assessing the impact of monetary, financial and real sector shocks in both the US and the euro area. The literature has traditionally highlighted the influence of US...
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We study negative interest rate policy (NIRP) exploiting ECB's NIRP introduction and administrative data from Italy, severely hit by the Eurozone crisis. NIRP has expansionary effects on credit supply-- -and hence the real economy---through a portfolio rebalancing channel. NIRP affects banks...
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How does domestic monetary policy in systemic countries spillover to the rest of the world? This paper examines the transmission channel of domestic monetary policy in the cross-border context. We use exogenous shocks to monetary policy in systemically important economies, including the U.S.,...
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