Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Rates in Low-Income Countries: Heterogeneous Panel Estimates

51 Pages Posted: 3 Nov 2014

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Prachi Mishra

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

Peter J. Montiel

Williams College - Department of Economics

Peter L. Pedroni

Williams College

Antonio Spilimbergo

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The William Davidson Institute

Date Written: November 2014

Abstract

This paper studies the transmission of monetary shocks to lending rates in a large sample of advanced, emerging, and low-income countries. Transmission is measured by the impulse response of bank lending rates to monetary policy shocks. Long-run restrictions are used to identify such shocks. Using a heterogeneous structural panel VAR approach, we find that there is wide variation in the response of bank lending rates to a monetary policy innovation across countries. Monetary policy shocks are more likely to affect bank lending rates in the theoretically expected direction in countries that have better institutional frameworks, more developed financial structures, and less concentrated banking systems. Low-income countries score poorly along all of these dimensions, and we find that such countries indeed exhibit much weaker transmission of monetary policy shocks to bank lending rates than do advanced and emerging economies

Keywords: bank lending, monetary policy, structural panel VAR

JEL Classification: E5, O11, O16

Suggested Citation

Mishra, Prachi and Montiel, Peter J. and Pedroni, Peter L. and Spilimbergo, Antonio, Monetary Policy and Bank Lending Rates in Low-Income Countries: Heterogeneous Panel Estimates (November 2014). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10230, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2518716

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