摘要:This paper uses panel data on banks, for the period 1991-98, to test the existence of a banklending
channel in the Spanish economy. In order to distinguish between loan demand and
supply movements, several exercises are performed. First, we analyse the differential responses,
to monetary policy changes, of bank lending by banks with different size, liquidity and
capitalisation. Second, we analyse the response to an exogenous deposit-reducing shock (a taxinduced
shift from deposits to mutual fund shares). As this involves a pure loan supply shock, it
best solves the above-mentioned identification problem. Our results are mostly against the
existence of a bank-lending channel in the period under analysis. This result appears to be related
to the important role of many small banks as collectors of savings, meaning they have a large
volume of resources available for lending.