Financial institutions’ business models and the global transmission of monetary policy

Isabel Argimon (isabel.argimon@bde.es), Clemens Bonner, Ricardo Correa, Patty Duijm, Jon Frost, Jakob de Haan, Leo de Haan and Viktors Stebunovs

Journal of International Money and Finance, 2019, vol. 90, issue C, 99-117

Abstract: Global financial institutions play an important role in channeling funds across countries and, therefore, transmitting monetary policy from one country to another. In this paper, we study whether such international transmission depends on financial institutions’ business models. In particular, we use Dutch, Spanish, and U.S. confidential supervisory data to test whether the transmission operates differently through banks, insurance companies, and pension funds. We find marked heterogeneity in the transmission of monetary policy across the three types of institutions, across the three banking systems, and across banks within each banking system. While insurance companies and pension funds do not transmit home-country monetary policy internationally, banks do, with the direction and strength of the transmission determined by their business models and balance sheet characteristics.

Keywords: Monetary policy transmission; Global financial institutions; Bank lending channel; Portfolio channel; Business models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 F3 F4 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2018.08.010

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