Bericht

Impact of a policy rate cut on bank profitability and financial stability

Concerns prevail that a policy rate cut could weaken bank profitability and trigger financial instability. However, banks can sustain relatively high net interest margins with little fluctuation despite a rate cut owing to their dominant position in the deposit market and ability to adjust loan maturity. - By virtue of their market dominance, banks set their deposit rates below the base rate by a fixed percentage, and as such, the former falls within a narrower range than the latter. - Because deposit rates are little exposed to base rate fluctuations, banks are able to increase their share of long-term loans which are unaffected by short-term rate changes. This means that lending rates also fall by a smaller margin. - An empirical analysis found that a 1%p change in the call rate, which moves in line with the base rate, adjusts the deposit and lending rates by 0.53%p and 0.58%p, respectively, indicating that the fluctuation (0.05%p) in the net interest margin is statistically insignificant. Therefore, the possibility of financial instability due to a deterioration in bank profitability on a rate cut by the central bank should not be deemed as a constraint.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: KDI Policy Forum ; No. 280

Classification
Wirtschaft

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hwang, Sunjoo
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Korea Development Institute (KDI)
(where)
Sejong
(when)
2020

DOI
doi:10.22740/kdi.forum.e.2020.280
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  • Bericht

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  • Hwang, Sunjoo
  • Korea Development Institute (KDI)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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