The Role of Banks in the Czech Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism

Anca Pruteanu-Podpiera

Working Papers from Czech National Bank, Research and Statistics Department

Abstract: With this work, we aim to enrich the knowledge about the monetary policy transmission mechanism in the Czech Republic with empirical evidence on the impact of monetary policy on bank lending. Using a panel of quarterly time series for Czech commercial banks for the period 1996-2001, we study the overall effect of monetary policy changes on the growth rate of loans and the characteristics of the supply of loans. The characterization of the credit market's supply side allows us to make inferences on the operativeness of the credit channel (the bank lending channel and the broad credit channel) of the monetary transmission mechanism. We find that changes in monetary policy alter the growth rate of loans with considerably stronger magnitude in the period 1999-2001 than in the period 1996-1998. From the analysis intended to capture the characteristics of the supply of loans, we conclude that the lending channel was operative in the period 1996-1998: we find cross-sectional differences in the lending reactions to monetary policy shocks due to degree of capitalization and liquidity. For the subsequent period 1999- 2001, the results also show distributive effects of monetary policy due to bank size and a bank's proportion of classified loans. In the context of steadily decreasing interest rates, this bolsters the supposition of credit rationing and hence that of an operative broad credit channel. At the same time, we find evidence of linear relationships between bank characteristics and the growth rate of loans, and again these relationships change between the two time periods. This bodes well with the changes in the structure and attitude towards lending of the Czech commercial banks.

Keywords: Bank lending channel; broad credit channel; credit rationing; monetary transmission mechanism. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 E52 E58 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-fin, nep-mac, nep-mon and nep-tra
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