The Interest Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area During the Global Financial Crisis

Wollmershäuser, Timo; Hristov, Nikolay and Hülsewig, Oliver (2013): The Interest Rate Pass-Through in the Euro Area During the Global Financial Crisis. Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: Financial Markets and Macroeconomics B19-V3

Abstract

This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is that the pass through from changes in the money market rate to retail bank rates became significantly less complete during the crisis. Model simulations show that this result can be well explained by a significant increase in the frictions that the banks business is subject to.

• Item Type: Paper
• Faculties: Economics; Economics > Chairs > Chair in Public Finance
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• Language: English