Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Relationships
Management Science, 0 [10.1287/mnsc.2022.01871]
83 Pages Posted: 18 May 2017 Last revised: 8 Feb 2024
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Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Relationships
Unconventional Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Relationships
Date Written: January 25, 2024
Abstract
Firms with only one bank relationship make up the majority of firms in many economies. This paper explores whether policy-driven lending is differentially transmitted to single-bank firms in comparison to the multi-bank firms that are the focus of the literature. Using unique variation in the ECB's Very Long-Term Refinancing Operations (VLTROs), which affected lending to firms discontinuously across credit ratings but within banks, we find selective transmission of VLTRO liquidity to single-bank firms. Banks apply higher lending standards to single-bank firms, with banking relationships determining both new lending and lending maturity. By contrast, banks appear to transmit policy lending near-uniformly across multi-bank firms.
Keywords: Unconventional Monetary Policy Transmission, Relationship Banking, SME Finance
JEL Classification: E52, G21, E58, E51, G01
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