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Long-term debt propagation and real reversals
(18.04.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 5/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 5/2023
We examine a propagation mechanism that arises from households’ long-term borrowing and show empirically that it has sizable real effects. The mechanism recognises that when there is long-term debt, an impulse to new ...
The transmission of negative nominal interest rates in Finland
(21.04.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 6/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 6/2023
Despite the implementation of negative nominal interest rates by several advanced economies in the last decade and the many papers that have been written about this novel policy tool, there is still much we do not know ...
Climate-related disclosure commitment of the lenders, credit rationing, and borrower environmental performance
(24.04.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 7/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 7/2023
Using lenders becoming members of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) as a plausible exogeneous shock, we examine whether and how lenders’ commitment to transparent climate-related disclosures ...
Identifying money and inflation expectation shocks on real oil prices
(15.06.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 10/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 10/2023
The paper adds money supply and inflation expectations shocks to a well-known three-variable structural model that identifies oil price shocks through fundamentals affecting the oil market. Impulse responses show the ...
Who funds zombie firms : banks or non-banks?
(09.02.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 2/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 2/2023
Analyses of zombie firms have emphasised the role of bank financing as the reason for zombie survival. This conclusion was made despite no comparative analysis of the sources of external finance for zombie firms. This paper ...
Lone (Loan) Wolf Pack Risk
(16.03.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 4/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 4/2023
This paper proposes an early-warning bank risk measure based on the syndicate concentration of recent syndicated loans that a bank participates in. At the bank level, higher values of the measure predict greater risks ...
Asymmetric effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policy when rates are low
(15.03.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 3/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 3/2023
We study asymmetric inflation effects of both conventional and unconventional monetary policy in the euro area during the period of low nominal interest rates. We find that rate cuts are inflationary also during low interest ...
News or animal spirits? Consumer confidence and economic activity: Redux
(25.04.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 8/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 8/2023
Barsky and Sims (2012, AER) demonstrated, via indirect inference, that confidence innovations can be viewed as noisy signals about medium-term economic growth. They highlighted that the connection between confidence and ...
Monetary policy transmission below zero
(27.06.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 11/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 11/2023
This study considers the pass-through of different ECB monetary policy measures to bank corporate lending rates of different maturities during 2010–2020. We find changes in the pass-through as policy rates first dip below ...
Demographic aging and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
(26.10.2023)
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 16/2023
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers 16/2023
I document a statistical link between old-age dependency ratios and average markups. I propose that a mechanism whereby households develop deep habits in consumption as they age could explain this feature of the data. I ...