How Do Bank Lending Rates and the Supply of Loans React to Shifts in Loan Demand in the U.K.?

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This paper examines the pass-through from the market interest to the rate charged on bank loans using aggregate data for the U.K. Thereby, we explicitly disentangle credit supply and demand and allow the interest rate charged on loans to depend on the volume of loans. We find that, although banks adjust the lending rate to some extent, they largely accommodate shifts in demand. Overall, our results are consistent with the idea that banks provide insurance against liquidity shocks.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 0902

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
• Subject: Interest Rate Pass-Through ; Relationship Banking ; Kredit ; Nachfrage ; Angebot ; Zins ; Kreditgeschäft ; Großbritannien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Burgstaller, Johann ; Scharler, Johann
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics
• (where): Linz
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/73592
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET