Biodiversitätsrisiken spielen hinsichtlich ihrer potenziellen Auswirkungen auf die Finanzstabilität eine mindestens genauso wichtige Rolle wie Klimarisiken, eine Befassung mit Biodiversitätsrisiken im institutsinternen Risikomanagement ist daher unbedingt notwendig.

Publication to accompany the special exhibition at the Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank from 20.09.2022 to 29.10.2023.

Zweite Abstimmung mit der Kreditwirtschaft zur technischen Spezifikation

Zweite Abstimmung mit der Kreditwirtschaft zur technischen Spezifikation

The Eurosystem’s negative interest rate policy (NIRP) incentivised banks to also charge their customers negative deposit rates. My analysis shows that German banks did actually charge negative interest rates on corporate deposits at times. However, the banks that did so were primarily those which relied heavily on household deposits as a source of funding. These banks were very reluctant to apply negative interest rates to household deposits as well, and thus probably faced particularly high margin pressure. It was primarily these banks that also charged higher fees in order to ease this pressure.

The April 2023 Monthly Report describes the relationship between money market conditions and the remuneration of government deposits. It also presents the results of the new household wealth survey. In addition, it discusses the impact of the current crises on international payments and how sustainability risks are factored into banking supervision.

Banks need to develop new approaches to adequately manage sustainability risks and become more resilient to those risks.

The debate surrounding climate change mitigation measures has lately also extended to central bank instruments. One of the points under discussion is the preferential treatment of green bonds in central bank monetary policy operations. This would improve the financing conditions of firms with low emissions and thus create an incentive for green investment. Using a novel model, we analyse the climate policy and macroeconomic implications of a green-tilted collateral policy and are able to identify only minor effects on green investment.