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Central Banking Below Zero : The Implementation of Negative Interest Rate Policies in Europe and Japan

Angrick, Stefan - 2018

We provide an overview of the operational implementation of negative interest rates in Europe and Japan, drawing attention to the fact that there is precedent for negative policy rates and negative money market rates. We then address conceptual issues and summarize measures which define negative...

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Zero Lower Bound on Deposit Rates and Transmission Mechanism of the Negative Interest Rate Policy

Sun, Guofeng - 2018

There have been heated debates on the negative interest rate policy (NIRP) since it was first introduced in major economies. Critics argue that deposit interest rates cannot break through the zero lower bound (ZLB) and that banks' interest margins can be heavily squeezed under the NIRP. The...

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Monetary Policy Transmission to Mortgages in a Negative Interest Rate Environment

Amzallag, Adrien - 2018

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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Effectiveness of Unconventional Monetary Policies in a Low Interest Rate Environment

Filardo, Andrew J. - 2018

Have unconventional monetary policies (UMPs) become less effective at stimulating economies in persistently low interest rate environments? This paper examines that question with a time-varying parameter VAR for the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area and Japan. One advantage of our...

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Combining negative rates, forward guidance and asset purchases : identification and impacts of the ECB's unconventional policies

Rostagno, Massimo; Altavilla, Carlo; Carboni, Giacomo; … - 2021

This paper provides new empirical evidence that bears on the efficacy of unconventional monetary policies when the main policy rate is negative. When a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is deployed in concert with rate forward guidance (FG) and quantitative easing (QE), the identification of...

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Mixing QE and interest rate policies at the effective lower bound : micro evidence from the euro area

Bittner, Christian; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Saidi, Farzad; … - 2021 - First version: June 15, 2021, this version: October 12, 2021

In the presence of negative monetary-policy rates and a zero lower bound on deposit rates, banks that are more exposed to central banks' asset-purchase programs reduce their lending to the real economy by more than their counterparts. When banks face a lower bound on customer deposit rates, an...

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Negative Interest Rates, COVID-19, and the Finances of Listed Euro Firms

von Eije, J. Henk - 2021

Negative interest rates are a new phenomenon. Short-term deposit rates of the European Central Banks became negative in 2014 and sovereign debts of highly solvent countries followed. This paper measures the effect of short-term rates on short-term financial variables and of long-term rates on...

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Negative Interest Rates, Excess Liquidity and Retail Deposits : Banks’ Reaction to Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Demiralp, Selva; Eisenschmidt, Jens; Vlassopoulos, Thomas - 2021

deposits tends to be floored at zero, which limits the transmission of policy rate cuts to bank funding costs. We investigate … and sheds some new light on results that associate NIRP with a contraction in bank loans, albeit in specific market …, pointing to a strong complementarity of NIRP with central bank liquidity injections, e.g. via asset purchases …

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Monetary policy strategies in the New Normal : a model-based analysis for the euro area

Busetti, Fabio; Neri, Stefano; Notarpietro, Alessandro; … - In: Journal of macroeconomics 70 (2021), pp. 1-17

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Negative interest rates, COVID-19, and the finances of listed euro firms

Eije, Johan H. von - In: Central European review of economics and management : CEREM 5 (2021) 4, pp. 117-143

Aim: The paper measures the impact of negative interest rates on listed firms in the original euro zone countries. It also measures the impact of the first COVID-19 year. Design / research methods: The paper uses panel data to measure the influence of the short-term ECB deposit rate and the...

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