Year: 2017
Type: report
Abstract: Following the crisis of 2008 several central banks engaged in a radical new policy experiment by setting negative policy rates.Using aggregate and bank-level data, we document a collapse in pass-through to deposit and lending rates once the policy rate turns negative.Motivated by these empirical facts, we construct a macro-model with a banking sector that links together policy rates, deposit rates and lending rates.Once the policy rates turns negative the usual transmission mechanism of monetary policy breaks down.Moreover, because a negative interest rate on reserves reduces bank profits, the total effect on aggregate output can be contractionary.
DOI: 10.3386/w24039
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Banco de Portugal
OpenAlex ID: W2768971199