Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152952 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 518
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the pricing of bank loans and deposits in euro area countries. We show that retail bank interest rates adjust not only to changes in short term interest rates but also to long-term interest rates. This result, which is arguably intuitive for long-term retail bank rates, is also confirmed for bank interest rates on short-term instruments. The transmission of changes in short-term market interest rates along the yield curve is found to be a key factor explaining the sluggishness of retail bank interest rates. We also show that in the cases where we cannot reject that the adjustment of retail rates has changed since the introduction of the euro, this adjustment has become faster.
Subjects: 
Euro area countries
market interest rates
retail bank interest rates
JEL: 
E43
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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