Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72278 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Reihe Ökonomie / Economics Series No. 191
Publisher: 
Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna
Abstract: 
So far studies concerned with the interest pass-through of monetary policy have not taken into account one central issue that arose in Europe in the late 1990s: the importance of financial structure for the convergence of monetary transmission. This study addresses this shortcoming. We estimate a time varying interest pass-through allowing us to test for the importance of financial structure and its impact on the convergence of the effects of monetary policy. We find convergence in banks' reaction to money market movements, which is additionally reduced in groups of countries with similar financial structure. Furthermore, there is a significant impact of financial structure on the extent of transmission of monetary policy impulses within the same month. Thus, differences in financial structure between countries must not be ignored when considering convergence of monetary transmission in Europe.
Subjects: 
convergence
interest rate pass-through
EMU
financial structure
money and bank interest rates
transmission mechanism
JEL: 
E43
G21
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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