Monetary Policy, Development of Financial Market and Banking Lending : An Analysis of the Bank-Lending Channel in Malaysia

Monetary Expansion and the Banking Lending Channel

This paper examines the bank lending channel, which considers how monetary authority actions affect the variation of loans. We focus on the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) totalizing 1254 banks from five countries in the period 2000-2012 (totalizing 13 years). The empirical results show that the effect of money supply growth on the growth of loans is non-linear and inverte...

Bank Lending and Monetary Policy: A Comment

The Effect of Monetary Policy on Bank Lending and Aggregate Output: Asymmetries from Nonlinearities in the Lending Channel

This paper examines the asymmetric effects of monetary policy on output and the role of bank-lending behavior. We investigate whether contractionary and expansionary policies have asymmetric impacts on bank loans, and whether there are further differences in the response of small banks and big banks to policy actions. We also investigate the link between changes in bank lending and aggregate ec...

Is There a Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy in Latvia? Evidence from Bank Level Data

2 Introduction 3 1. The Bank Lending Channel 4 1.1 Interest Rate and Credit Channels: a Brief Overview of Theoretical Concepts 4 1.2 Determinants of the Bank Lending Channel 6 2. A Short Description of Latvia's Banking Sector 7 2.1 Importance of the Banking Sector for Latvia's Financial System 7 2.2 Structure of Latvia's Banking Sector 8 3. Discovering Asymmetries in Bank Lending Behaviour 12 3...

Lending Relationships and Monetary Policy

Financial intermediation and bank spreads are important elements in the analysis of business cycle transmission and monetary policy. We present a simple framework that introduces lending relationships, a relevant feature of financial intermediation that has been so far neglected in the monetary economics literature, into a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with staggered prices and c...