that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …

Using news-based government economic policy uncertainty (EPU) index of Baker et al. (2016) and bank-level data from 17 … with interest rates on bank gross loans. Specifically, a one standard deviation increase in EPU leads to 21.84 basis points … increase in average interest rates on bank gross loans. We conjecture the economic policy uncertainty boosts banks' loan prices …