Claudia Buch, Matthieu Bussière, Linda Goldberg, Robert Hills, (2018), “International transmission of monetary policy via banks: New cross-country evidence from the International Banking Research Network”, VoxEU, 20 April
The channels through which one country’s monetary policy affects the international economy are still not that well understood. This column presents findings from latest project of the International Banking Research Network, which reveal that monetary policy spillover effects via bank lending are significant across countries in both conventional and unconventional periods. While the results provide some support to the bank lending and portfolio channels traditionally studied in the literature, they also suggest that other bank-level frictions matter.
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- Sebastian Schmidt, (2018), «The effective lower bound and the desirability of gradual interest rate adjustments», ECB, Research Bulletin No. 45, 13 April
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