Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73307 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 0306
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
The transmission process from policy-controlled interest rates to bank lending rates deserves reconsideration owing to the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999. Additional attention to the subject in Austria is due to several large banks which, in 2002, have been charged for not passing on interest rate decreases to their customers. I examine dynamic responses of commercial credit rates to changes in key policy rates and money market rates. Using Austrian data from 1995 to 2002, I show that strength and speed of interest rate transmission depend on whether rates go up or down. With the EMU, asymmetry in interest rate transmission partly declined. The speed of transmission and the relative importance of policy and money market rates for commercial credit rates also were affected.
Subjects: 
Monetary policy transmission
interest rate pass-through
bank lending rates for commercial credit
European Monetary Union
impulse-response analysis
JEL: 
E43
E52
G21
G30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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