The monetary policy transmission mechanism and the role of money market funds in the Eurozone

Nicholas Apergis (), Tasawar Hayat () and Tareq Saeed ()
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Tasawar Hayat: King Abdulaziz University
Tareq Saeed: King Abdulaziz University

Economics Bulletin, 2020, vol. 40, issue 2, 1249-1260

Abstract: This paper investigates the pass-through mechanism of monetary policy through money market funds and bank loan rates under conventional and unconventional monetary policy. Using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag method, spanning the period 2003-2018, the findings document that the pass-through of bank loan rates is weaker than that of MMF rates (0.642 vs 1.044, respectively), especially during the unconventional monetary policy period (0.637 vs 1.568, respectively). They highlight that in this period, banks earned less from traditional lending business, due to low or even negative rates, while taking increasingly large risks.

Keywords: conventional and unconventional monetary policy; money market funds; eurozone (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-05-06
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