Bank deposit pricing in the euro area

Ugo Albertazzi, Finn Faber, Oana-Maria Georgescu, Alessandro Gavazza and Ernest Lecomte

No 3255, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: We investigate the supply and demand drivers of bank deposit pricing in the Euro area during the period 2007–2024. We document that the pass-through of policy rates to sight deposit rates is low, asymmetric, varies across the monetary policy regimes, and decreases over time. We build and estimate an equilibrium model of bank deposit markets, and find that the price sensitivity of depositors exhibits large heterogeneity between households and firms, across countries, and over time. Our estimates suggest that rate-sensitive depositors increasingly switched to alternative, higher-yielding savings products over time, thereby decreasing the average rate-sensitivity of the remaining pool of sight deposits. In turn, banks’ market power over sight deposits increased, thereby accounting for the sluggish increase in overnight deposit rates following the 2022 European Central Bank’s policy rate hikes. JEL Classification: G21, G28, E52, E43

Keywords: bank market power; deposit pricing; price elasticity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-07
Note: 451871
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