Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152537 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 103
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper tests cross-sectional differences in the effectiveness of the bank lending channel of monetary policy in Italy from 1986 to 1998 using a panel approach. After a monetary tightening the decrease in deposits subject to reserve requirements is sharper for those banks that have less incentive to shield the effect of a monetary squeeze: small banks characterized by a higher ratio of deposits to loans and well-capitalized banks that have a greater capacity to raise other forms of external funds. As to lending, size does not affect the banks' reaction to a monetary policy impulse. This can be explained by a closer customer relationship, which provides an incentive for small banks, which are more liquid on average, to smooth the effects of a tightening on credit supplied. Banks' liquidity is the most significant factor enabling them to attenuate the effect of a decrease in deposits on lending.
Subjects: 
bank lending channel
monetary policy
transmission mechanisms
JEL: 
E44
E51
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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