Incomplete interest rate pass-through under credit and labor market frictions

C-Tier
Journal: Economic Modeling
Year: 2014
Volume: 36
Issue: C
Pages: 645-657

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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

Abstract

By introducing search and matching frictions in both the labor and the credit markets into a cash in advance New Keynesian DSGE model, we provide a novel explanation of the incomplete pass-through from policy rates to loan rates. We show that this phenomenon is ineradicable if banks possess some power in the bargaining over the loan rate of interest, if the cost of posting job vacancies is positive and if firms and banks sustain costs when searching for lines of credit and when posting credit vacancies, respectively. We also show that the presence of credit market frictions moderates the reactions of employment and wages to a monetary shock. Finally, we confirm the finding that pass-through incompleteness has limited short-term impacts on the transmission of monetary policy shocks to output and inflation.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:ecmode:v:36:y:2014:i:c:p:645-657
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25