Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/156702 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1654
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
We examine whether monetary transmission during the financial and sovereign debt crisis was dominated by the cost channel or by the demand-side channel effect. We use two approaches to track down the potential passthrough of changes in the monetary policy rate to those in consumer prices. First, we utilize panel data from the German manufacturing industry. Second, we conduct time series analyses for Germany, Italy, and Spain. We find that when manufacturing firms' interest costs drop, the changes in their respective industry's price index are smaller one year later. This finding is consistent with the cost channel theory. Taken together, the results of both panel data and time series analyses imply that the ECB's low interest rate policy has worked better for boosting inflation in Italy and Spain than in Germany.
Subjects: 
inflation
cost channel
monetary transmission
JEL: 
G01
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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