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| Benchmark Interest Rates in the Interbank Market and Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks from a Financial Network Perspective |
| ZHONG Shan, LIN Mucai, HONG Zhiwu
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Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University;
School of Statistics, Huaqiao University;
Business School, China University of Political Science and Law |
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Abstract In August 2020, the People's Bank of China released a white paper entitled “Participating in International Benchmark Interest Rate Reform and Improving China's Benchmark Interest Rate System”. This highlights that China's money, bond, credit and derivatives markets have each developed their own benchmark interest rates with considerable credibility, authority and market recognition. Thus, monetary policy shocks in China are transmitted to the financial market through the benchmark interest rate system. Any comprehensive evaluation of China's monetary policy transmission therefore requires a structural perspective to assess the transmission of shocks between benchmark interest rates.
In this study, we incorporate a network perspective into our macro-financial analysis by constructing a structural shock information spillover network. We conduct an empirical analysis of the impact of monetary policy shocks on the interbank benchmark interest rate network. The empirical results reveal the structural characteristics and mechanisms of monetary policy transmission. Our study makes three main contributions to the literature.
In terms of our theoretical contribution, we analyze the formation mechanism of the information spillover network constructed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012, 2014), hereinafter referred to as the DY spillover network. The information spillover between network nodes reflects two types of correlation: the synchronous correlation between nodes stemming from the effect of common shocks and the dynamic correlation between nodes caused by a “contagion effect”. The total information spillover can be attributed to different common shocks, which enables us to construct an information spillover network of structural shocks that have the same properties as common shocks. The transmission of monetary policy shocks between interest rates can be regarded as the spillover of monetary policy shock information between nodes.
Empirically, we explore the impact of monetary policy shocks on the spillover of the interbank market benchmark interest rate network and conduct a structural analysis of monetary policy transmission. We select the pledged repo rate, interbank lending rate and government bond yield in the interbank market as benchmark interest rates. We then regard these interest rates as nodes and construct a time-varying DY spillover network through the TVP-VAR model, to identify the core nodes of the interest rate network. The empirical results show that the one-day pledged repo rate is the core node of the interest rate network and typically has the largest net information spillover. In terms of inter-market spillover, the money market shows a net information spillover to the government bond market. After identifying monetary policy shocks using heteroscedasticity assumptions, we further explore the impact of these shocks on information spillover between interest rates through regression analysis. The regression results show that the direction of the monetary policy shock spillover is opposite to the direction of the total information spillover: monetary policy shocks significantly reduce the net information spillover of one-day pledged repo rates and monetary policy shock information spills over from the government bond market to the money market.
Finally, we analyze the mechanism of the monetary policy shock spillover pattern identified in the empirical analysis. As government bond yields are more sensitive to monetary policy shocks, shocks identified from government bond yields have stronger predictive power for interest rates than those identified from the money market. China's monetary policy practice has not yet anchored short-term interest rates, and the monetary policy tools examined in this paper have a lag effect on short-term market interest rates. Government bond yields can fully reflect monetary policy shocks through expected effects, while short-term interest rates are more affected by funding liquidity shocks and have weaker transmission capacity for monetary policy shock information. These mechanisms are all supported by empirical evidence.
Our study therefore contributes to a better understanding of the DY spillover network and extends macro-finance research in terms of structural analysis. Our findings reveal the structural characteristics of China's current monetary policy transmission and provide important references for the development of benchmark interest rates during China's monetary policy transformation.
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Received: 17 August 2022
Published: 02 July 2023
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