“…Second, our paper contributes to the empirical literature that examines the passthrough from market rates to bank rates (See, for instance, Kleimeier and Sander (2006), Schlueter, Busch, Hartmann-Wendels, and Sievers (2016) and Pangopoulos and Spiliotis (2015)). This pass-through is most often found to be incomplete, with differences regarding various product categories (see, for instance, De Graeve, De Jonghe, and Vennet (2007)).…”