Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153638 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1204
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Banks do not charge explicit fees for many of the services they provide but the service payment is bundled with the offered interest rates. This output therefore has to be imputed using estimates of the opportunity cost of funds. We argue that rather than using the single short-term, low-risk interest rate as in current official statistics, reference rates should more closely match the risk characteristics of loans and deposits. For the euro area, imputed bank output is, on average, 24 to 40 percent lower than according to current methodology. This implies an average downward adjustment of euro area GDP (at current prices) between 0.16 and 0.27 percent.
Subjects: 
Bank output
deposit interest rates
FISIM
loan interest rates
risk
JEL: 
E01
E44
O47
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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