Trusting the Bankers: A New Look at the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy

Maddaloni, Angela; Ciccarelli, Matteo; Peydró, José-Luis

doi:10.2139/ssrn.1767969

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Trusting the Bankers: A New Look at the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy

39 Pages Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last revised: 30 Aug 2013

See all articles by Angela Maddaloni

José-Luis Peydró

Imperial College London; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

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Date Written: July 2013

Abstract

Credit supply and demand changes are mostly unobserved, thus identifying completely the transmission of monetary policy through the credit channel is unfeasible. Bank lending surveys by central banks, however, contain reliable quarterly information on changes in loan conditions due to bank, firm and household balance sheet strength and on changes in loan demand. Using the U.S. and the unique Euro area surveys, we find that the credit channel amplifies a monetary policy shock on GDP and prices, through the balance-sheets of households, firms and banks. For corporate loans, amplification is highest through the bank lending and the borrower's balance sheet channel; for households, demand is the strongest channel.

Keywords: Credit channel, Firm and household balance-sheet channels, Bank lending channel, Credit crunch, Credit supply, Monetary policy.

JEL Classification: E32, E44, E5, G01, G21

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Maddaloni, Angela and Ciccarelli, Matteo and Peydro, Jose-Luis, Trusting the Bankers: A New Look at the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy (July 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1767969 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1767969