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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Bank lending policies and monetary policy: some lessons from the negative interest era
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Oscar Arce
  • Miguel García-Posada
  • Sergio Mayordomo
  • Steven Ongena
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Economic Policy
Publisher Oxford University Press
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0266-4658
Volume 38
Number 116
Page Range 899 - 941
Date 2023
Abstract Text What is the long-term impact of negative interest rates on bank lending? To answer this question, we construct a unique summary measure of negative rate exposure by individual banks based on exclusive survey data and banks’ balance sheets and couple it with the credit register of Spain and firms’ balance sheets to identify this impact on the supply of credit to firms. We find that only when deposit rates reached the zero lower bound did affected banks (relative to non-affected banks) decrease their supply, especially when undercapitalized and lending to risky firms. The adverse effects of the negative rates on banks’ intermediation capacity only took place after a protracted period of time.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1093/epolic/eiae001
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