This study examines whether precious metals, industrial metals, energy and agricultural
commodities, or cryptocurrencies form trustworthy safe havens against extreme price …

Faced with a potential zero lower bound on deposit interest rates, how do banks pass on the
fall in net interest income due to negative interest rates? This paper aims to investigate the …

Abstract Following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, the central banks of many advanced
economies resorted to unconventional monetary policies including, the adoption of a …

Contemporary economists argue that negative interest rate as an unconventional monetary
policy helps stimulate economic growth. The European Central Bank (ECB) entered …

Using a large panel of data from 3446 banks located in the euro area over the period 2009-
2018, this paper aims to shed further light on the question: How does bank capital ratio …

This study investigates the effects of the negative interest rate policy in Japan on bank
lending using regression discontinuity design. On January 29, 2016, the Bank of Japan …

The results of this research show that the interest rates and loan growth have a negative
relationship meaning that when loan growth increases, interest rates are decreasing and …

Central banks, whose ultimate goals are price and financial stability, take into account the
functionality of monetary transmission channels when determining their monetary policies …

The purpose of this thesis is to enrich the debate on the effects of the shift of policy interest
rates into negative territory. We analyze how the implementation of negative interest rate …