Table 4 Results for the bank risk-taking channel.

From: The monetary policy pass-through mechanism: Is the search-for-yield incentive at work?

 

Dependent variable: the natural logarithm of the Z-score index

 

(1) SFYroa

(2) SFYroe

(3) SFYroa

(4) SFYroe

Lagged dependent variable

0.321*** (0.036)

0.349*** (0.034)

0.316*** (0.039)

0.314*** (0.038)

Refinancing rates

0.039*** (0.010)

0.039*** (0.010)

  

Refinancing rates*Search for yield

–0.040** (0.016)

–0.004** (0.002)

  

Rediscounting rates

  

0.042*** (0.010)

0.041*** (0.011)

Rediscounting rates*Search for yield

  

–0.036** (0.016)

–0.002 (0.001)

Search for yield

0.357** (0.163)

0.043** (0.019)

0.244* (0.133)

0.009** (0.004)

Size

0.036 (0.023)

0.037 (0.025)

0.030 (0.024)

0.046** (0.022)

Income models

–0.008*** (0.002)

–0.009*** (0.002)

–0.008*** (0.002)

–0.009*** (0.002)

Liquidity

0.001 (0.003)

0.001 (0.002)

0.001 (0.003)

0.001 (0.003)

Economic cycle

0.258*** (0.034)

0.257*** (0.033)

0.275*** (0.035)

0.254*** (0.037)

Stock return

0.002*** (0.000)

0.002*** (0.001)

0.002*** (0.000)

0.002*** (0.001)

Number of observations

303

303

303

303

Number of banks

31

31

31

31

Number of instruments

29

29

29

29

AR(1) test

0.000

0.000

0.000

0.000

AR(2) test

0.179

0.187

0.184

0.130

Hansen test

0.351

0.345

0.362

0.329

  1. This table reports the regression results estimated by the two-step system GMM dynamic panel model. The “search for yield” variable used (SFYroa and SFYroe, separately) is given at the top of each column. Symbols ***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1, 5, and 10% levels, respectively. Robust standard errors are expressed in parentheses. The Hansen test of valid instruments and the AR(1)/AR(2) tests for the first- and second-order serial correlation are shown with p-values. For the definitions of all variables employed, see Table 1.