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This paper examines how banking competition affects the transmission of monetary policy through the bank lending … consistent evidence that increased competition in the banking sector weakens the bank lending channel. This is especially so for … Asia, making the bank lending channel weaker there. We also discuss policy implications of the main findings of the paper …
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be conditioned by the degree of market competition. We first identify conditions under which changes in marginal costs … competition setting. We then exploit changes in monetary policy to examine whether the pass-through of borrowing costs is affected …
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I argue that countries' dollar-denominated net external debt (dollar debt) helps explain the large differences in risk premia across currencies and how U.S. monetary policy affects the global economy. When the U.S. dollar strengthens, the real value of dollar debt increases, weakening the...
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Firms in emerging markets are exposed to severe financial frictions and credit constraints, that are exacerbated by the sudden stop of capital inflows. Can monetary policy offset this external credit squeeze? We show that although this may be the case during moderate contractions (or in partial...
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be conditioned by the degree of market competition. We first identify conditions under which changes in marginal costs … competition setting. We then exploit changes in monetary policy to examine whether the pass-through of borrowing costs is affected …
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US dollars, we obtain unique measures of currency substitution, asset substitution, dollarization, and bank credibility …
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This paper analyzes banking crises using a quantitative model with equilibrium default for both firms and banks. The main results are: 1) small open economies have larger banking crises than closed or large economies. Constant international rates do not mitigate interbank spreads and amplify...
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This study investigates how bank competition affects the transmission of monetary policy through risk-taking channel … lending is enhanced by bank competition. We find that transmission of monetary policy through risk taking channel vary … according to bank competition. Risky lending by banks with poor capital during the low interest rate period is enhanced by bank …
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This paper analyses the extent to which the level of bank competition influences monetary policy transmission. Using a …, our results show that an increase in banking sector competition weakens the effectiveness of monetary policy on bank …
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