This paper investigates the link between bank-firm lending relationships and monetary policy pass-through, focusing on episodes of low interest rates. Using administrative tax and bank supervisory data ranging from 1997 to 2019, we track the entirety of bank-firm relationships in Norway. Our...

Die Nachfrage der österreichischen Privathaushalte nach Wohnbaukrediten stieg aufgrund der sinkenden Zinsen im ersten Quartal 2025 deutlich. Auch für das zweite Quartal 2025 erwarten die befragten Banken einen weiteren Anstieg der Kreditnachfrage. Im Gegensatz dazu sank die Kreditnachfrage der...

In this paper we assess the implications of monetary policy shocks on the house price to rent ratio in the case of the Irish property market. Crucially, in light of the particular circumstances of the market, we allow for the interaction between monetary policy and changing credit conditions in...

We estimate the monetary policy pass-through to lending rates in Brazil and the United States using the same methodology and obtain very different results. In the United States, the pass-through tends to be larger than 1:1. In Brazil, we find a 1:1 pass-through only in the case of non-earmarked...

Die steigenden Zinsen haben Auswirkungen auf die kommunalen Haushalte. Sie erhöhen die Kosten für Kredite und verteuern damit die Finanzierung notwendiger Investitionen in Infrastruktur und Transformation. Zwar dürfte der Großteil der Kommunen ausreichend Spielräume haben, um mit höheren...

This paper estimates the social costs and benefits of the Basel III banking regulation application to Moroccan banks, which, inter alia, imposed higher capital requirements. The paper quantifies the impact of higher capital requirements on (i) lending rates, (ii) bank refinancing costs, and...