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The Transmission of Monetary Policy via the Banks' Balance Sheet - Does Bank Size Matter?

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  • Tumisang Loate

    (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria)

  • Nicola Viegi

    (SARB Chair in Monetary Economics, Department of Economics, University of Pretoria)

Abstract

We study the credit channel of monetary policy in South Africa between 2002 and 2019 using banks' balance sheets. We show that there is a significant heterogeneity within the banking sector in both the loan and deposit sides of the banks' balance sheets. In response to a contractionary monetary policy shock, big banks adjust their loan portfolio by lending to businesses and reducing lending to households whereas for small banks we find the opposite. The increase in corporate lending amid declining inventories is consistent with the hypothesis of ``hedging and safeguarding the capital adequacy ratio" rather than funding business inventories. This paper highlights the importance of heterogeneity in customers, market power and business models in the banking sector, which characterises the socio-demographics dynamics in South Africa.

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  • Tumisang Loate & Nicola Viegi, 2021. "The Transmission of Monetary Policy via the Banks' Balance Sheet - Does Bank Size Matter?," Working Papers 202109, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics.
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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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