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We show that "zombie credit" - cheap credit to impaired firms - has a disinflationary effect. By helping distressed firms to stay afloat, such credit creates excess production capacity, thereby putting downward pressure on product prices. Granular European data on inflation, firms, and banks...
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Reducing interest rates below zero may be justified on theoretical grounds while, in practice, it is shown to create a number of distortions and malfunctions in several dimensions of banking and financial markets, which in turn may affect the whole economy. This paper surveys international...
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financing instruments for banks and means of payment for bank customers implies spillover effects of bank lending. After a bank … finances loans with new deposits, the deposit holders' payments cause reserves and deposits to flow from the lending bank to … that generate respectively strategic complementarity and strategic substitution in banks' lending decisions. We model bank …
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How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper … finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending …
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stress, the central bank should be aggressive when applying credit easing policies …
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, the central bank should be aggressive when applying credit easing policies …
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Deposits finance bank lending and serve as means of payment for bank customers. Under uncertain payment flows, deposits … payment risk on bank lending, bridging the literatures on payment systems and credit supply. An interquartile increase in … dampens the bank lending channel of monetary policy transmission …
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Bank of the Republic of Macedonia (NBRM), which is complemented with data from banks' balance sheets. By using pooled OLS …, although the effect is relatively small. The results prove to be robust after controlling for several bank, loan and time …
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In this paper, we investigate to what extent sovereign stress and banking stress have contributed to the increase in the level and in the heterogeneity of nonfinancial firms' financing costs in the Euro area during the European debt crisis and how both have affected the monetary transmission...
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In this paper, we investigate to what extent sovereign stress and banking stress have contributed to the increase in the level and in the heterogeneity of non-financial firms' financing costs in the Euro area during the European debt crisis and how both have affected the monetary transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797419