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Implications of negative interest rates for the net interest margin and lending of euro area banks

This paper explores the impact of low (but) positive and negative market interest rates on euro area banks' net interest margin (NIM) and its components, retail lending and retail deposit rates. Using two proprietary bank-level data sets, I find a positive impact of the level of the short-term rate on the NIM, which increases substantially at negative market rates. As low profitability could hamper the ability of banks to expand lending, I also investigate the impact of the NIM on new lending to the non-financial private sector. In general, the NIM is positively related to lending: When lending is less profitable, banks cut lending. However, at negative rates this effect vanishes. This finding suggests that banks adjusted their business practices when servicing new loans, thereby contributing to higher new lending in the euro area since 2014.

ISBN
978-3-95729-679-5
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper ; No. 10/2020

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Monetary Policy
Thema
net interest margin
monetary policy
negative interest rates
bank profitability
lending

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Klein, Melanie
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Klein, Melanie
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2020

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