This paper analyses how the introduction of the IRB approach may have affected banks' lending to enterprises, lending margins and portfolio quality in Norway. Our results show that the IRB banks' lending margins decreased compared with the standardised approach banks following the introduction...

This paper analyses how the introduction of the IRB approach may have affected banks' lending to enterprises, lending margins and portfolio quality in Norway. Our results show that the IRB banks' lending margins decreased compared with the standardised approach banks following the introduction...

Målet i likviditetspolitikken er å sørge for at de helt kortsiktige pengemarkedsrentene holdes nær styringsrenten. Sentralbankene oppnår dette ved å fastsette vilkårene for bankenes lån og plasseringer i sentralbanken, samt å tilpasse mengden likviditet i banksystemet....

Interbankrenter som Libor, Euribor, Stibor og Nibor spiller en viktig rolle som referanserenter i en rekke låneavtaler og for ulike typer derivater. Interbankrentene skal uttrykke prisen på et usikret utlån fra en bank til en annen. Under finanskrisen høsten 2008 økte både Nibor og...

Interbank interest rates such as three‐ and six‐month LIBOR, EURIBOR, STIBOR and NIBOR play an important role as benchmark rates for a number of loan contracts and various types of derivatives. Interbank rates are intended to express the cost of unsecured lending by one bank to another....

Norges Bank has published its own forecasts for the key policy rate since 2005. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand introduced this practice as early as in 1997. Later, in 2007, the Swedish Riksbank also started to publish its interest rate forecasts, followed by the Czech National Bank in 2009. In...

I dette notatet ser vi [...] nærmere på alternative virkemidler med særlig fokus på monetær økosirk. Vi drøfter først ulike pengemengdebegreper og hvordan penger skapes. Deretter ser vi nærmere på såkalte likviditetsstyringssystemer, som blant annet regulerer hvilke vilkår...

This memo takes a closer look at what lays behind different benchmark interest rates. Particular emphasis is put on how the different practices for quotation can explain why Nibor's risk premium has on average been higher than the premiums in USD Libor and Euribor.