Interest Rate Pass-Through in China: An Analysis of Chinese Commercial Banks

Bo Liu, Chang Liu and Jiangang Peng

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2018, vol. 54, issue 13, 3051-3063

Abstract: This study investigates the interest rate transmission in China. We analyze the extent to which the benchmark and wholesale interest rates are transmitted to the retail interest rates and focus particularly on the change in the interest rate pass-through after the interest rate liberalization. Using data of 16 listed banks from 2007Q1 to 2017Q3, we find that the pass-through is not yet complete. Even though interest rates have been liberalized on the policy level, the sensitivity of the retail interest rates to the wholesale rates has not increased enough as expected and may be explained by the market power of Chinese commercial banks.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1438258

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