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As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks’ balance sheets can have very sizeable implications for the transmission of monetary policy. This paper provides an overview of developments in banks’ balance sheets,...
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In this paper, we empirically analyze the transmission of realized interest rate risk - the gain or loss in bank economic capital due to movements in interest rates - to bank lending. We exploit a unique panel data set that contains supervisory information on the repricing maturity profiles of...
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inclusion of a broad set of loan-level controls and fixed effects. We also find that the spread between high and low credit …
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We study how monetary conditions change the supply by banks of mortgage credit to households. We exploit the widespread … presence of foreign currency mortgages in Hungary and study this country`s comprehensive credit registry. Changes in monetary … conditions not only affect the supply of credit in volume, but also in its currency and risk composition. Hence, we establish a …
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Do negative policy rates hinder banks' transmission of monetary policy? To answer this question, we examine the behaviour of Italian mortgage lenders using a novel loan-level dataset. When policy rates turn negative, banks with higher ratios of retail overnight deposits to total assets charge...
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reserve-rich banks’ credit supply is less sensitive to the monetary policy tightening compared to other banks. The effect …
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In this paper, we survey the nascent literature on the transmission of negative policy rates. We discuss the theory of how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the growing evidence that negative policy rates are...
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develops a simple analytical framework to study the impact of central bank policy-rate changes on banks' credit supply and risk … increase. Credit market competition plays an important role for the interplay of monetary policy and financing s tability. When … framework to discuss the literature on how monetary policy affects the credit supply of banks, with special emphasis on low and …
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margins, but credit and interest rate risk increase. Portfolio rebalancing implies relatively more lending, also compared to …
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the introduction of a negative deposit facility rate by the European Central Bank led to an increased credit supply by … high-deposit financed banks. Given the importance of relationship banking, the extended credit is granted mainly by smaller … banks and via existing credit relationships to firms and households. Banks lend more often to indebted customers and to …
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