Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/187510 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Berlin: Politikberatung kompakt No. 130
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
While negative interest rates stimulate the real economy by enhancing credit supply and improving the wealth situation of firms and households, they might come with side effects with regard to banking and financial stability. In an assessment of the trade-off between the ability of a central bank to use negative policy rates to signal lower future deposits rates, against the potential costs on bank profitability, we find that the signalling effect dominates. Thus, a negative interest rate policy is an effective monetary policy tool, even when deposit rates are bound by zero.
ISBN: 
978-3-946417-21-7
Document Type: 
Research Report

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