Credit Rationing and Monetary Transmission: Evidence for Portugal

ISEG Economics Department Working Paper No. 7/98

22 Pages Posted: 17 Sep 2002

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António Afonso

University of Lisbon - ISEG (School of Economics and Management); UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics); ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management,Universidade de Lisboa; REM - Research in Economics and Mathematics

Miguel St. Aubyn

Technical University of Lisbon - ISEG (School of Economics and Management); UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics)

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Date Written: 1998

Abstract

The hypothetical existence of rationing in the credit market is of paramount importance to understand the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Two indirect empirical tests of credit rationing are presented and discussed using Portuguese data.

The first test is a stickiness test to the response of loan rates to changes in money market conditions. For the second test a VAR is estimated in order to analyse the implied causality relations.

Keywords: credit rationing, credit market, banking, causality tests, Portugal

JEL Classification: E44

Suggested Citation

Afonso, António and St. Aubyn, Miguel, Credit Rationing and Monetary Transmission: Evidence for Portugal (1998). ISEG Economics Department Working Paper No. 7/98, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=317484 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.317484

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