Transmission of monetary policy through global banks: Whose policy matters?

Stefan Avdjiev, Cathérine Koch, Patrick McGuire and Goetz von Peter ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Catherine Tahmee Casanova

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2018, vol. 89, issue C, 67-82

Abstract: This paper explores the basic question of whose monetary policy matters for banks’ international lending. In the international context, monetary policies from several countries could come into play: the lender’s, the borrower’s, and that of a third country, the issuer of the currency in which cross-border lending is denominated. Using the rich dimensionality of the BIS international banking statistics, we find significant effects for all three policies. US monetary easing fuels cross-border lending in US dollars, as befits a global funding currency. At the same time, a tightening in the lender or the borrower country reinforces international dollar lending as global banks turn to the greenback for cheaper funding and toward borrowers abroad. Our results also show that stronger capitalization and better access to funding sources mitigate the frictions underpinning the transmission channels. Analogous results for euro-denominated lending confirm that global funding currencies play a key role in international monetary policy transmission.

Keywords: International banking; Currencies; Monetary policy transmission; International spillovers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2018.08.013

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