Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192647 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 665
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We use a dynamic factor model and a detailed panel data set with quarterly accounts data on all Norwegian banks to study the effects of banks' funding costs on their retail rates. Banks' funds are categorized into two groups: customer deposits and long-term wholesale funding (market funding from private and institutional investors including other banks). The cost of market funding is represented in the model by the three-month Norwegian Inter Bank Offered Rate (NIBOR) and the spread of unsecured senior bonds issued by Norwegian banks. Our estimates show clear evidence of incomplete pass-through: a unit increase in NIBOR leads to an approximately 0.8 increase in bank rates. On the other hand, the difference between banks' loan and deposit rates is independent of NIBOR. Our findings are consistent with the view that banks face a downward-sloping demand curve for loans and an upward-sloping supply curve for customer deposits.
Subjects: 
interest rates
NIBOR
pass-through
funding costs
bank panel data
dynamic factor model
JEL: 
C13
C22
C51
G10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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