Este documento demuestra que las políticas de un banco central local pueden atenuar los efectos del ciclo financiero global [Global Financial Cycle (GFC)]. Para su identificación, analizamos la variación del GFC y las intervenciones del Banco Central de Brasil en los mercados derivados de...

Combining euro-area credit register and carbon emission data, we provide evidence of a climate risk-taking channel in banks' lending policies. Banks charge higher interest rates to firms featuring greater carbon emissions, and lower rates to firms committing to lower emissions, controlling for...

We study negative interest rate policy (NIRP) exploiting ECB's NIRP introduction and administrative data from Italy, severely hit by the Eurozone crisis. NIRP has expansionary effects on credit supply-- -and hence the real economy---through a portfolio rebalancing channel. NIRP affects banks...