The Augmented Bank Balance-Sheet Channel of Monetary Policy

Christian Bittner, Diana Bonfim, Florian Heider, Farzad Saidi, Glenn Schepens and Carla Soares
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Christian Bittner: Bundesbank & Goethe University
Farzad Saidi: University of Bonn & CEPR

No 149, ECONtribute Discussion Papers Series from University of Bonn and University of Cologne, Germany

Abstract: This paper studies how banks’ balance sheets and funding costs interact in the transmission of monetary-policy rates to banks’ credit supply to firms. To do so, we use creditregistry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The pass-through of the rate cuts to banks’ funding costs differs across the euro-area currency union because deposit rates vary in their distance to the zero lower bound (ZLB). When the distance is shorter, banks’ financing constraints matter less for the supply of credit and there is more risk taking. To rationalize these findings, we provide a simple model of an augmented bank balance-sheet channel where in addition to costly external financing, there is screening of borrowers and a ZLB on retail deposit rates. An impaired pass-through of monetary policy to banks’ funding costs reduces their ability to lever up and weakens their lending standards.

Keywords: transmission of monetary policy; bank lending; bank risk taking; bank balance sheets; euro-area heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E52 E58 E63 F45 G20 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 pages
Date: 2022-02
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Working Paper: The Augmented Bank Balance-Sheet Channel of Monetary Policy (2022)
Working Paper: The augmented bank balance-sheet channel of monetary policy (2022)
Working Paper: The Augmented Bank Balance-Sheet Channel of Monetary Policy (2022)
Working Paper: The augmented bank balance-sheet channel of monetary policy (2022)
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