Bank behavior, incomplete interest rate pass-through, and the cost channel of monetary policy transmission

Economic Modelling

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1310-1327

  Hülsewig, Oliver ^a   Mayer, Eric ^b   Wollmershäuser, Timo ^a  

^a IFO INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bank behavior; Cost channel; Interest rate pass through; Minimum distance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849112927     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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