Lending interest rate pass-through in the euro area. A data-driven tale

Giuseppe Marotta

Centro Studi di Banca e Finanza (CEFIN) (Center for Studies in Banking and Finance) from Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi"

Abstract: The harmonized MIR retail interest rates for the euro area, available as of January 2003, show remarkable differences both in levels and dynamics with the previous unharmonized NRIR rates. This evidence should suggest caution in extrapolating the findings of the NRIR-based literature on the incomplete long-run pass-through of market rates even into the short term business lending rates, the least sticky ones among bank rates. We show that long run pass-throughs for MIR rates of smaller and larger short-term business loans are almost always complete or nearly so in nine of the founding EMU countries and in Greece.

Keywords: Interest rates; Monetary policy; European Monetary Union (EMU); Taylor principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 E58 F36 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: pages 13
Date: 2008-10
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