Negative Monetary Policy Rates and Portfolio Rebalancing : Evidence from Credit Register Data /

We study negative interest rate policy (NIRP) exploiting ECB's NIRP introduction and administrative data from Italy, severely hit by the Eurozone crisis. NIRP has expansionary effects on credit supply-- -and hence the real economy---through a portfolio rebalancing channel. NIRP affects banks wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bottero, Margherita
Other Authors: Minoiu, Camelia, Peydro, Jose-Luis, Polo, Andrea
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/044
Online Access:Full text available on IMF