Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192724 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 742
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
In this paper, we examine two questions: i) how changes in the funding costs of banks affect retail loan rates and ii) how changes in relative loan rates between banks affect their market shares. To do so, we estimate a simultaneous system of equations model using panel data for six Norwegian bank groups. The data set consists of quarterly data for the period 2002Q1-2011Q3 and includes information on loan volumes and retail (interest) rates for loans to firms and households. The cost of market funding is represented in our analysis by the three-month money market rate and a proxy for market risk; the credit spread on unsecured senior bonds issued by Norwegian banks. Our estimates suggest that a 10 basis points increase in the market rate leads to an approximately 8 basis points increase in retail loan rates. We also find that credit demand from households is more elastic with regard to the loan rate than credit demand from businesses.
Subjects: 
Credit demand
Pass-through
Funding costs
Monopolistic competition
Panel data
Dynamic factor model
JEL: 
C33
E27
E43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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