Financial Globalization and Bank Lending: The Limits of Domestic Monetary Policy?

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We empirically analyze how bank lending reacts to monetary policy in the presence of global financial flows. Employing a unique and novel dataset of the funding modes and currency composition of the full population of Norwegian banks in structurally identified regressions, we show that the efficiency of the bank lending channel is affected when banks can shift to international funding and thus insulate their costs of funding from domestic monetary policy. We isolate the effect of global factors from domestic monetary policy by focusing on the deviation of exchange rates from the prediction of (uncovered and covered) interest rate parity. The Norwegian banking sector represents an ideal laboratory since the exogenous exchange rate dynamics allows for a convincing identification of the relation between lending and global factors.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-82-8379-025-2
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 4/2018

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Monetary Policy ; Financial Aspects of Economic Integration ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
• Subject: monetary policy ; foreign funding channel ; exchange rate dynamics ; bank lending channel

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cao, Jin ; Dinger, Valeriya
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Norges Bank
• (where): Oslo
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/210139
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