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Size of Banks as a Factor Which Impacts the Efficiency of the Bank Lending Channel

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  • Świtała Filip

    (Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland)

  • Kowalska Iwona

    (Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, Poland)

  • Malajkat Karolina

    (Collegium of Socio-Economics, Warsaw School of Economics,Poland)

Abstract

In most economies the banking sector plays the major role in the financial system. Therefore, it is of great importance to analyse and understand the mechanism of transmission of monetary policy and its impact on the banking sector. One of the possible repercussions of changing the level of official interest rates is the ability to influence the size of bank lending, by means of the bank lending channel. The key aspect our research is a thorough understanding of the functioning of the bank lending channel, with the main goal of this study being an examination of the efficiency of monetary policy transmission through the bank lending channel depending on the size of banks in the sector. This paper examines the abovementioned relation using annual data from 1995-2015 by 1709 commercial and cooperative banks from 27 EU countries and analyzing them in various econometric models. The results indicate that there is a positive impact of a bank’s size on loan growth (defined as the bank size increases, the impact of changes in interest rates in the bank’s lending policy is getting smaller), however, interaction between the variables of size and the interest rate, was proved to be insignificant (in the group of all analysed banks, as well as in commercial and cooperative banks separately).

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  • Świtała Filip & Kowalska Iwona & Malajkat Karolina, 2020. "Size of Banks as a Factor Which Impacts the Efficiency of the Bank Lending Channel," Financial Internet Quarterly (formerly e-Finanse), Sciendo, vol. 16(1), pages 36-44, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:finiqu:v:16:y:2020:i:1:p:36-44:n:7
    DOI: 10.2478/fiqf-2020-0005
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    Keywords

    loan supply; capital ratio; monetary policy; bank lending channel; bank assets;
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    JEL classification:

    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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