A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY IN A HETEROGENEOUS MONETARY UNION: Managing the Effects on the Bank Lending Channel

2022 ◽  
pp. 103392
Author(s):  
Paolo Fegatelli
Author(s):  
Leonardo Gambacorta ◽  
Paul Mizen

Central bank policy operates first through financial markets and then through banks as they adjust their interest rates. This chapter discusses the transmission of policy in this first step of the monetary transmission mechanism, known as interest-rate pass-through. Historically, the focus of attention has been the interest-rate channel. We show the origins of this channel via a microfounded model of interest-rate setting by deposit-taking institutions that are Cournot oligopolists facing adjustment costs. We then examine other channels such as the bank lending channel and the bank capital channel and the role of central bank communications, signaling, and forward guidance over future interest rates. Each is shown to influence the setting of current short-term interest rates. The chapter closes with some issues for the future of pass-through in the transmission process.


2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (13) ◽  
pp. 1237-1242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdurrahman Nazif Çatik ◽  
Mehmet Karaçuka

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