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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149389903321

Autore

Turk Rima

Titolo

Negative Interest Rates : : How Big a Challenge for Large Danish and Swedish Banks? / / Rima Turk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

1-4755-4471-5

1-4755-4474-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (30 pages) : illustrations, tables, graphs

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

332.82

Soggetti

Interest rates - Denmark

Interest rates - Sweden

Banks and banking - Denmark

Banks and Banking

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Finance: General

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Central Banks and Their Policies

Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions

General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation

Banking

Monetary economics

Finance

Negative interest rates

Deposit rates

Central bank policy rate

Personal income

Monetary policy

Financial services

National accounts

Bank soundness

Financial sector policy and analysis



Interest rates

Banks and banking

Income

Sweden

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Negative policy interest rates have prevailed for some years in Denmark and are a more  recent development in Sweden. Among other potential side effects, negative rates could  weaken banks’ profitability by reducing net interest income, their main source of earnings.  However, an analysis of financial statements at the country rather than the consolidated  group level shows that bank margins have been broadly stable. At least to date, lower interest  income was offset by reductions in wholesale funding costs and higher fee income.  Nonetheless, the impacts on bank health and lending from negative interest rates will need to  continue to be monitored closely.