Interest Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy Asymmetry: A Journey into the Caucasian Black Box

Rustam Jamilov and Balázs Égert

No 2013-9, EconomiX Working Papers from University of Paris Nanterre, EconomiX

Abstract: This paper analyses the interest rate pass-through for five economies of the Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Employing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) specification to monthly data, we find that the interest rate pass-through is systematically incomplete and sluggish, probably due to macroeconomic instability and low banking sector competition. It is not clear whether pass-through has improved over time and asymmetric adjustment is found to characterize the pass-through only occasionally. Overall, our results show a considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity in the size and speed of the pass-through.

Keywords: Interest Rate Pass-Through; Asymmetric Adjustment; Caucasus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 N25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2013
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Working Paper: Interest Rate Pass-Through and Monetary Policy Asymmetry: A Journey into the Caucasian Black Box (2013)
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