Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228085 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 03/2020
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyze the relationship between the net interest margin (NIM) of US and European banks and market interest rates in a low interest rate environment. We contribute to the literature by examining a large sample of annual data on 1,155 banks from United States and EU member countries during the 2011-2016 period, which also covers periods of zero and negative rates in many of the observed countries. We test three hypotheses and come to three main conclusions. First, NIM is significantly influenced by the different institutional designs of bank-based or capital-basaed finanfical markets. Second, there are differences in NIM caused by bank size, although these are not fully captured by our methodology. Finally, we show significant differences by bank type: saving banks, real estate and mortgage banks, and cooperative banks report consistently lower NIMs than commercial banks and bank holdings. Contrary to other researches, we observe a negative relationship between NIM and the yield curve slope.
Subjects: 
banks
bank-based market
capital-based market interest rates
institutional design
net interest margin
profitability
system GMM
JEL: 
C33
E43
G21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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