We test the existence of the balance sheet channel of monetary policy in a middle-income country. Firm-level data scarcity and quality, in such a context, make the identification of this channel a steep challenge. To circumvent this challenge, we use panel instrumental variables estimation with...

This paper applied the panel VAR approach and the Impulse Response Functions to investigate the differences in the monetary transmission processes of Islamic and conventional banks using disaggregated bank-level data for Saudi Arabia over the period 2008Q1-2020Q4. Our findings show that: i)...

A crucial condition for the existence of a credit channel through bank loans is that monetary policy should be able to change bank loan supply. This paper contributes to the discussion on this issue by presenting empirical evidence from dynamic panel estimations based on a dataset that comprises...