Negative Monetary Policy Rates and Portfolio Rebalancing: Evidence from Credit Register Data
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Summary:
We study negative interest rate policy (NIRP) exploiting ECB's NIRP introduction and administrative data from Italy, severely hit by the Eurozone crisis. NIRP has expansionary effects on credit supply-- -and hence the real economy---through a portfolio rebalancing channel. NIRP affects banks with higher ex-ante net short-term interbank positions or, more broadly, more liquid balance-sheets, not with higher retail deposits. NIRP-affected banks rebalance their portfolios from liquid assets to credit—especially to riskier and smaller firms—and cut loan rates, inducing sizable real effects. By shifting the entire yield curve downwards, NIRP differs from rate cuts just above the ZLB.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2019/044
Subject:
Bank credit Bank deposits Banking Central bank policy rate Credit Financial institutions Financial services Loans Money
English
Publication Date:
February 28, 2019
ISBN/ISSN:
9781498300858/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2019044
Pages:
59
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