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Session
Track W2-5: Banking and Monetary Transmission
Time:
Wednesday, 22/May/2024:
1:45pm - 2:30pm

Session Chair: Moritz Lenel, Princeton University
Discussant: Jiaqi Li, Bank of Canada
Location: Room 501


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Digital Payments and Monetary Policy Transmission

Pauline Liang1, Matheus Sampaio2, Sergey Sarkisyan3

1Stanford Graduate School of Business; 2Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; 3Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

We examine the impact of digital payments on the transmission of monetary policy. Leveraging administrative data on Pix, a digital payment system introduced by the Central Bank of Brazil, we find that Pix adoption has diminished banks’ market power, making them more responsive to changes in policy rates. Subsequently, we estimate a dynamic banking model in which digital payment amplifies deposit elasticity through the household sector. Our counterfactual results reveal that digital payments amplify the monetary policy transmission by reducing banks’ market power – banks respond more to policy rate changes after Pix. We find that digital payments impact monetary transmission primarily through the deposit channel.


Liang-Digital Payments and Monetary Policy Transmission-966.pdf


 
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