Monetary policy and credit card spending

Francesco Grigoli () and Damiano Sandri

No 1064, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: We analyze the impact of monetary policy on consumer spending using confidential credit card data. Being available at daily frequency, these data improve the identification of the monetary transmission and allow for a more precise characterization of the transmission lags. We find that shocks to short-term interest rates affect spending much more rapidly than shocks to medium-term interest rates. We also document significant asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy. While interest rate hikes strongly curb spending-especially if coupled with reductions in stock prices reflecting pure monetary policy shocks-interest rate cuts appear unable to lift spending. Finally, we exploit the disaggregation of credit card data to examine the heterogeneous effects of monetary policy across spending categories and users' characteristics.

Keywords: credit card spending; heterogeneity; monetary policy; transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-cba, nep-ifn, nep-mon and nep-pay
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