In Lands of Foreign Currency Credit, Bank Lending Channels Run Through?

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Steven Ongena

University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance; Swiss Finance Institute; KU Leuven; NTNU Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Ibolya Schindele

Central European University; Central Bank of Hungary

Dzsamila Vonnák

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Institute of Economics CERS-HAS (IEHAS)

Date Written: August 12, 2020

Abstract

We study the impact of monetary policy on the supply of bank credit when bank lending is denominated in foreign currencies. Accessing a comprehensive supervisory dataset from Hungary, we find that the supply of bank credit in a foreign currency is less sensitive to changes in domestic monetary conditions than the equivalent supply in the domestic currency. Changes in foreign monetary conditions similarly affect bank lending more in the foreign than in the domestic currency. Hence when banks lend in multiple currencies the domestic bank lending channel is weakened and international bank lending channels become operational.

Keywords: bank balance-sheet channel, monetary policy, foreign currency lending

JEL Classification: E51, F3, G21

Suggested Citation

Ongena, Steven R. G. and Schindele, Ibolya and Vonnák, Dzsamila, In Lands of Foreign Currency Credit, Bank Lending Channels Run Through? (August 12, 2020). CFS Working Paper, No. 474, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 20-104, Journal of International Economics, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2507688 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2507688

Steven R. G. Ongena (Contact Author)

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Dzsamila Vonnák

Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) - Institute of Economics CERS-HAS (IEHAS) ( email )

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Budapest, 1112
Hungary

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