Interest Rate Pass‐Through and Monetary Transmission: Evidence from Individual Financial Institutions' Retail Rates

Economica - Tập 71 Số 281 - Trang 99-123 - 2004
Boris Hofmann, Paul Mizen

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Official interest rate changes should influence short rates on money market instruments and retail products, such as deposit accounts and mortgages, but complete pass‐through is often taken for granted. This paper provides a theoretical and econometric framework for assessing the evidence for this assumption using seventeen years of monthly data for rates on thirteen deposit and mortgage products offered by individual UK financial institutions. The methodology allows for asymmetries and non‐linearities in adjustment and the results show that the speed of adjustment in retail rates depends on whether the perceived ‘gap’ between retail and base rates is widening or narrowing.

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