Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Asia: The Role of Banks and the Effects of Financial Globalization

By Nasha Ananchotikul, Dulani Seneviratne

September 28, 2015

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Nasha Ananchotikul, and Dulani Seneviratne. Monetary Policy Transmission in Emerging Asia: The Role of Banks and the Effects of Financial Globalization, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

Given the heavy reliance on bank lending as the main source of financing in most Asian economies, banks could potentially play a pivotal role in monetary policy transmission. However, we find that Asia’s bank lending channel or, more broadly, credit channel of domestic monetary policy is not very strong at the aggregate level. Using bank-level data for nine Asian economies during 2000–2013, we show that heterogeneity of bank characteristics (e.g., ownership type, financial position), degree of foreign bank penetration of the domestic banking sector, and global financial conditions all have a bearing on the response of domestic credit to changes in domestic monetary policy, and may account for the apparently weak credit channel at aggregate level.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Commercial banks, Credit, Financial institutions, Foreign banks, Loans, Money

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Bank characteristic, Bank competition, Bank credit, Bank lending channel, Bank penetration, Banking sector, Commercial banks, Credit, Financial globalization, Foreign banks, Global, Interest rate, Lending channel, Loan growth, Loans, Monetary policy transmission, Ownership structure, Parent bank, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
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Working Paper No. 2015/207
Stock No:

WPIEA2015207
ISBN:

9781513516233
ISSN:

1018-5941

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