Ripple effects of monetary policy

Frédéric Boissay, Emilia Garcia-Appendini and Steven Ongena

No 957, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: Is conventional monetary policy transmitted through the demand for and supply of intermediate goods in an economy? Analyzing unique US data on corporate linkages, we document that downstream and upstream corporate financial health are instrumental for the transmission of monetary policy. Our estimates suggest that contractionary changes in monetary conditions lead to reductions in both the demand and the supply of all financially constrained business partners, thereby creating bottlenecks, which induce the linked firms themselves to curtail their own activities ("ripple effects"). Overall, our estimates suggest that changes in monetary conditions may have a quantitatively larger impact on firms' operations through the changes in demand and supply induced by constrained business partners than through the firms' own financial conditions.

Keywords: monetary policy transmission; supply chain; aggregate demand; cost channel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 99 pages
Date: 2021-08
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