The lending channel under optimal choice of monetary policy
Juha Kilponen and
Alistair Milne
No 33/2007, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers from Bank of Finland
Abstract:
Building on Cecchetti and Li (2005), we show that the bank lending channel affects monetary policy trade-offs only when interest rates affect marginal costs of production (ie when there is a cost channel of monetary policy) in the New Keynesian monetary policy model. In our calibrated model the resulting impact of the bank lending channel on output-inflation trade-offs is quantitatively small and of ambiguous sign. When bank capital varies counter cyclically and bank loan rates have a relatively large impact on marginal costs, variation of bank loan margins improves monetary policy trade-offs. The new Basel accord, by increasing capital requirements during economic downturns, offsets this beneficial impact.
Keywords: bank capital; bank lending; capital buffers; pro-cyclicality; capital regulation; cost channel; credit channel; loan margins; monetary trade-offs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E51 E52 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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