The study empirically examines the impact of bank diversification on monetary policy transmission through the bank lending channel. Based on monetary and bank-level data from 2008 to 2018 in Vietnam, a diverse environment of monetary policy tools, results show that bank diversification...

The quantity of reserves in the U.S. banking system has risen dramatically since September 2008. Some commentators have expressed concern that this pattern indicates that the Federal Reserve’s liquidity facilities have been ineffective in promoting the flow of credit to firms and households....