Is Monetary Policy Always Effective? Incomplete Interest Rate Pass-through in a DSGE Model

Andrew Binning, Hilde C. Bjørnland () and Junior Maih
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Hilde Christiane Bjørnland ()

No No 09/2019, Working Papers from Centre for Applied Macro- and Petroleum economics (CAMP), BI Norwegian Business School

Abstract: We estimate a regime-switching DSGE model with a banking sector to explain incomplete and asymmetric interest rate pass-through, especially in the presence of a binding zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint. The model is estimated using Bayesian techniques on US data between 1985 and 2016. The framework allows us to explain the time-varying interest rate spreads and pass-through observed in the data. We ?nd that pass-through tends to be delayed in the short run, and incomplete in the long run. All this impacts the dynamics of the other macroeconomic variables in the model. In particular, we ?nd monetary policy to be less e?ective under incomplete pass-through. Furthermore, the behavior of pass-through in the loan rate is di?erent from that of the deposit rate shocks. This creates asymmetric dynamics at the zero lower bound, and incomplete pass-through exacerbates that asymmetry.

Keywords: banking sector; incomplete or symmetric interest rate pass-through; DSGE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68 pages
Date: 2019-11
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