Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel
Negative Nominal Interest Rates and the Bank Lending Channel
复制标题
负名义利率与银行贷款渠道
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3334966
复制
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Ella Getz Wold
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Gauti B. Eggertsson;Ragnar E. Juelsrud;L. Summers;Ella Getz Wold
Following the crisis of 2008, several central banks engaged in a new experiment by setting negative policy rates. Using aggregate and bank level data, we document that deposit rates stopped responding to policy rates once they went negative and that bank lending rates in some cases increased rather than decreased in response to policy rate cuts. Based on the empirical evidence, we construct a macro-model with a banking sector that links together policy rates, deposit rates and lending rates. Once the policy rate turns negative, the usual transmission mechanism of monetary policy through the bank sector breaks down. Moreover, because a negative policy rate reduces bank profits, the total effect on aggregate output can be contractionary. A calibration which matches Swedish bank level data suggests that a policy rate of - 0.50 percent increases borrowing rates by 15 basis points and reduces output by 7 basis points.