Financial Structure, Bank Lending Rates, and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy /

The stickiness of bank lending rates with respect to money market rates is often regarded as an obstacle to the smooth transmission of monetary policy impulses. Yet, no systematic measure of the different degree of lending rate stickiness across countries has been attempted. This paper provides such...

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Autore principale: Kourelis, Angeliki
Altri autori: Cottarelli, Carlo
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/039
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF