BoE paper finds heterogeneous policy transmission to firms

Authors say financial frictions “crucial” to understanding monetary policy transmission

Front of Bank of England London

New research finds financial frictions, particularly differences in leverage between firms, play a key role in the transmission of monetary policy.

The Bank of England staff working paper, by Gareth Anderson and Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, draws on new data on corporate bond spreads. The authors say this helps them overcome two shortcomings of previous literature: the fact that firm-level data comes out less frequently than monetary policy decisions; and the confusion caused by “non-monetary” news

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