The Bank of Japan's Monetary Policy and Bank Risk Premiums in the Money Market

Naohiko Baba, Motoharu Nakashima, Yosuke Shigemi and Kazuo Ueda ()
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Naohiko Baba: Financial Markets Department and Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan
Motoharu Nakashima: Financial Markets Department, Bank of Japan

No CIRJE-F-339, CIRJE F-Series from CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo

Abstract: This short paper shows that under the Bank of Japan's Zero Interest Rate Policy and Quantitative Monetary Easing, not just the levels of money market rates but also the dispersion of rates across banks have fallen to near zero. Using the data on individual banks' Negotiable Certificate of Deposit rates, we first show that the dispersion of the rates among banks has fallen since 1999, the year of the adoption of the Zero Interest Rate Policy and has reached almost zero by 2004. We next show that the fall in the dispersion of the rates is not explained by a corresponding fall in the dispersion of the credit ratings of the banks. Rather, credit risk premiums seem to have disappeared in the money market. We also discuss possible relationships between this result and the Bank of Japan's monetary policy.

Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2005-04
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