Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Adapting lending policies in a "negative-for-long" scenario

MAP20210011160

Adapting lending policies in a "negative-for-long" scenario / Oscar Arce...[et al.]. — Madrid : Fundación de Estudios Financieros, 2021

51 p.

Este trabajo obtuvo el Primer Premio en 2020 Premios de Investigación y Estudio Antonio Dionis Soler 2020

Sumario: What is the long-term impact of negative interest rates on bank lending? To answer this question we construct a unique summary measure of negative rate exposure by individual banks based on exclusive survey data and banks' balance sheets and couple it with the credit register of Spain and firms' balance sheets to identify this impact on the supply of credit to firms. We find that only after a few years of negative rates do affected banks (relative to non-affected banks) decrease their supply and increase their rates, especially when lowly capitalized and lending to risky firms. This suggests that the adverse effects of the negative interest rates on banks' intermediation capacity only show up after a protracted period of ultra-low rates.

DL M. 8.646-2021

ISBN 978-84-09-28237-1

1. Créditos . 2. Tipos de interés . 3. Rentabilidad bancaria . 4. Operaciones bancarias . 5. Empresas . I. Arce, Oscar . II. Fundación de Estudios Financieros . III. Título.