Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153769 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1335
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The 2007-2010 financial crisis highlighted the central role of financial intermediaries’ stability in buttressing a smooth transmission of credit to borrowers. While results from the years prior to the crisis often cast doubts on the strength of the bank lending channel, recent evidence shows that bank-specific characteristics can have a large impact on the provision of credit. We show that new factors, such as changes in banks’ business models and market funding patterns, had modified the monetary transmission mechanism in Europe and in the US prior to the crisis, and demonstrate the existence of structural changes during the period of financial crisis. Banks with weaker core capital positions, greater dependence on market funding and on non-interest sources of income restricted the loan supply more strongly during the crisis period. These findings support the Basel III focus on banks’ core capital and on funding liquidity risks. They also call for a more forwardlooking approach to the statistical data coverage of the banking sector by central banks. In particular, there should be a stronger focus on monitoring those financial factors that are likely to influence the functioning of the monetary transmission mechanism particularly in a period of crisis.
Subjects: 
bank lending channel
financial innovation
monetary policy
JEL: 
E51
E52
E44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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