Arbeitspapier

Monetary Policy, Funding Cost and Banks' Risk-Taking: Evidence from the United States

How much deposits and equity a bank has influences how a banks' lending responds to monetary policy. While the responsiveness for the bank lending channel has been well established, this is not the case for the risk-taking channel (RTC). We show in a value-at-risk RTC model that the lending for banks with relatively more equity and non-interest-bearing deposits should respond less to monetary policy tightening. This suggests that non-interest-bearing deposits act as "pseudo capital". In a panel of US banks, we find strong evidence in support of our model for various risk measures.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9995

Classification
Wirtschaft
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Monetary Policy
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Subject
bank lending
deposits
value-at-risk
pseudo capital

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bürgi, Constantin
Jiang, Bo
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2022

Handle
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bürgi, Constantin
  • Jiang, Bo
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2022

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