Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152455 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 21
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Effects of monetary policy shocks on the business conditions of firms of several size classes are analysed, with the finding of considerable asymmetry. As predicted by theory, small firms are affected more strongly than large firms. To test whether these effects are reinforced when the economy is in a business cycle downturn, the paper employs a new estimation strategy: impulse response analysis conditional on Markov-switching regimes. The findings are supportive of the theoretical hypotheses: in a business cycle downturn, the distributional effects of monetary policy transmission are indeed reinforced.
Subjects: 
balance sheet channel
firm size
Markov switching
Monetary policy transmission
JEL: 
E52
E44
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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