Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173758 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 302
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
We use an original monthly dataset of 131 individual euro area banks to examine the effectiveness and transmission mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have indeed been successful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the "bank lending view" of monetary transmission. Specifically, the policies have had a greater impact on loan supply of banks that are more constrained to obtain unsecured external funding, i.e. small banks (size effect), banks with less liquid balance sheets (liquidity effect), banks that depend more on wholesale funding (retail effect) and low-capitalized banks (capital effect). The role of bank capital is, however, ambiguous. Besides the above favorable direct effect on loan supply, lower levels of bank capitalization at the same time mitigate the size, retail and liquidity effects of the policies. The drag on the other channels has even been dominant during the sample period, i.e. better capitalized banks have on average responded more to the credit support policies of the Eurosystem as a result of more favourable size, retail and liquidity effects.
Subjects: 
unconventional monetary policy
bank lending
monetary transmission mechanism
JEL: 
E51
E52
E58
G01
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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