Bank Market Power and Monetary Policy Transmission: Evidence from a Structural Estimation

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Journal: Journal of Finance
Year: 2022
Volume: 77
Issue: 4
Pages: 2093-2141

Authors (4)

YIFEI WANG (not in RePEc) TONI M. WHITED (National Bureau of Economic Re...) YUFENG WU (not in RePEc) KAIRONG XIAO (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

1.005 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 2.0x A-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We quantify the impact of bank market power on monetary policy transmission through banks to borrowers. We estimate a dynamic banking model in which monetary policy affects imperfectly competitive banks' funding costs. Banks optimize the pass‐through of these costs to borrowers and depositors, while facing capital and reserve regulation. We find that bank market power explains much of the transmission of monetary policy to borrowers, with an effect comparable to that of bank capital regulation. When the federal funds rate falls below 0.9%, market power interacts with bank capital regulation to produce a reversal of the effect of monetary policy.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:bla:jfinan:v:77:y:2022:i:4:p:2093-2141
Journal Field
Finance
Author Count
4
Added to Database
2026-01-29