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 rates. This finding can be explained with a model that...

We extend the Carlin and Soskice (2005) 3-equation New Keynesian model by introducing a commercial bank that intermediates between the central bank and borrowers in the non-bank private sector. Commercial bank interest rate setting is explicitly modelled, and the implications for stabilization...