Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/297987 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
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KBA Centre for Research on Financial Markets and Policy Working Paper Series No. 78
Publisher: 
Kenya Bankers Association (KBA), Nairobi
Abstract: 
Using a Panel VAR model and annual bank level data for the period 2008-2022, this study investigated banks risk taking behaviour amid monetary policy tightening considering the role of banks' non-interest-bearing deposits and equity levels. Estimation results found monetary policy tightening and equity levels reduces the bank risk taking behavior thus evidence of monetary policy risk-taking transmission channel. However, the contrary was reported with regard to bank liability: - non - interest bearing deposit "pseudo assets". However, interaction between policy rate, equity and "pseudo assets" was found to increase bank risk appetite significantly. This study is important since under the risk-taking channel view, a change in the policy rate is immediately transmitted to money-market instruments of different maturity and to other short-term rates, such as interbank deposits and this quickly affects the interest rates that banks charge their customers for variable-rate loans, including overdrafts.
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Working Paper

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