Este trabajo muestra que la heterogeneidad de las ratios de capitalización bancaria desempeña un papel importante en la transmisión de la política monetaria a los préstamos bancarios. Primero, muestro nueva evidencia empírica sobre la dependencia de las respuestas de los préstamos...

The pass-through of market interest rates to the financial conditions of households and firms represents an essential element in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. In this document, we analyze how this transmission is developing in the current hiking cycle in the euro area and in Spain,...

The pass-through of market interest rates to the financial conditions of households and firms is an essential element in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. In this paper, we analyse how this transmission is playing out in the current hiking cycle in the euro area and in Spain, as...

Artículo de revista ; De acuerdo con la Encuesta sobre Préstamos Bancarios, durante el cuarto trimestre de 2019 se produjo en España, en todas las modalidades, un ligero endurecimiento de los criterios de concesión, mientras que en la Unión Económica y Monetaria (UEM) este solo afectó a...

Artículo de revista ; In 2019 Q3, according to the Bank Lending Survey, loan supply in Spain remained generally stable, with only credit standards for consumer credit to households tightening slightly, and terms and conditions on new loans for house purchase easing somewhat. By contrast, in the...

Artículo de revista ; According to the Bank Lending Survey, during 2019 Q4, credit standards tightened slightly for all categories of lending in Spain, whereas this only affected consumer credit and other lending to households in the euro area. In this segment, the general terms and conditions...

Artículo de revista ; According to the Bank Lending Survey, in 2020 Q1 credit supply contracted slightly in both Spain and the euro area, affecting practically all the segments analysed. Demand for loans continued to fall in Spain across the board, although firms’ demand fell at a slower rate...

Artículo de revista ; The latest Bank Lending Survey results show a widespread contraction of credit supply both in Spain and in the euro area in 2020 Q3, which would be linked to increased risk perception. On the demand side, demand from firms fell in both Spain and the euro area following the...

Artículo de revista ; According to the Bank Lending Survey, during 2021 Q1 the loan supply contracted slightly once again in almost all segments both in Spain and in the euro area, which is linked to banks’ heightened risk perceptions. Loan applications slipped across the board in the two...

We identify the impact of short-term interest rates on credit risk-taking by analyzing a comprehensive credit register from Spain, a country where for the last twenty years monetary policy was mostly decided abroad. Discrete choice, within borrower comparison and duration analyses show that...