THE TRANSMISSION MECHANISM OF CREDIT SUPPORT POLICIES IN THE EURO AREA

Jef Boeckx (), Maite De Sola Perea and Gert Peersman ()

Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium from Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Abstract: We use an original monthly dataset of 131 individual euro area banks to examine the effectiveness and transmission mechanism of the Eurosystem’s credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the "bank lending view" of monetary transmission. Specifically, the policies have had a greater impact on loan supply of banks that are more constrained to obtain unsecured external funding, i.e. small banks (size effect), banks with less liquid balance sheets (liquidity effect), banks that depend more on wholesale funding (retail effect) and low-capitalized banks (capital e ffect). The role of bank capital is,however, ambiguous. Besides the above favorable direct effect on loan supply, lower levels of bank capitalization at the same time mitigate the size, retail and liquidit effects of the policies. The drag on the other channels has even been dominant during the sample period, i.e. better capitalized banks have on average responded more to the credit support policies of the Eurosystem as a result of more favourable size, retail and liquidity effects.

Keywords: unconventional monetary policy; bank lending; monetary transmission mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 E52 E58 G01 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2016-12
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