Bubeck, Johannes; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2020
We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach-for-yield. For identification, we exploit … the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for … the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more customer deposits are negatively affected by negative rates, as …