This paper documents how a system wide deterioration in funding quality, which we argue to be underpinned by macroeconomic conditions, can have a substantial effect in the pricing of deposit and loan rates. The study is motivated by a puzzling observation from Turkish banking system. During...

Retail deposits represent about 30% of total European banking assets. The bulk of the balance sheet of banks (about 70%) comprise non-retail loans and deposits (e.g. interbank loans and deposits, loans and deposits from insurance corporations and pension funds and loans and deposits from...