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RBA Glossary definition for basis point
basis point – A basis point is 1/100th of 1 per cent or 0.01 per cent, so 100 basis points (bps) is equal to 1 percentage point. The term is used in money and securities markets to define differences in interest or yield. If an interest rate were to increase from 2 per cent to 3 per cent, it is said to have risen by 100 basis points (bps) or one percentage point.
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The Impact of Interest Rates on Bank Profitability: A Retrospective Assessment Using New Cross-country Bank-level Data
21 Jun 2023
RDP
2023-05
However, we find a smaller effect than in previous studies: on average across countries, a 100 basis point fall in short-term interest rates results in a 5 basis point decline
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2023/2023-05.html
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Do Monetary Policy and Economic Conditions Impact Innovation? Evidence from Australian Administrative Data
15 Feb 2024
RDP
2024-01
The share of SMEs (less than 200 employees) innovating falls by 6 percentage points the year after a 100 basis point contractionary monetary policy shock (Table 1). ... Table 1: Effect of 100 Basis Point Contractionary Shock on Share of Firms Innovating.
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The Consequences of Low Interest Rates for the Australian Banking Sector
29 Dec 2022
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RBA Annual Conference 2022
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2022/pdf/rba-conference-2022-brassil.pdf
Estimating the Effects of Monetary Policy in Australia Using Sign-restricted Structural Vector Autoregressions
29 Dec 2022
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100 basis point shock. This occurs because the identifying restrictions may admit the possibility that. ... Sign restrictions may. therefore be extremely uninformative about the effects of a 100 basis point shock.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2022/pdf/rdp2022-09.pdf
Central Bank Frameworks: Evolution or Revolution?
4 Jan 2023
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RBA Conference Volume 2018
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2018/pdf/rba-conference-volume-2018.pdf
Demand in the Repo Market: Indirect Perspectives from Open Market Operations from 2006 to 2020
9 May 2024
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2 basis points below the overnight indexed swap (OIS) rate (Figure 3).11 This relationship between. ... a 2.5 basis point increase from 5 basis points to 7.5 basis points would be regarded as a significant.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2024/pdf/rdp2024-03.pdf
Rates Normalization Amid Elevated Global Financial Vulnerabilities
29 Dec 2022
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RBA Annual Conference 2022
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2022/pdf/rba-conference-2022-natalucci.pdf
Decomposing Supply and Demand Driven Inflation
23 Nov 2023
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RBA Annual Conference 2023
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2023/pdf/rba-conference-2023-shapiro.pdf
Macrofinancial Stress Testing on Australian Banks
13 Sep 2023
RDP
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2 Our calibration results in wholesale funding spreads rising by 80 basis points for every percentage point of reduction. ... We feel this latter point is essential for modelling defaults on banks’ business lending portfolios,.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2022/pdf/rdp2022-03.pdf
The Unit-effect Normalisation in Set-identified Structural Vector Autoregressions
6 Oct 2022
RDP
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100 basis point federal funds rate shock under different sets of identifying restrictions. ... Some. restrictions are very uninformative about the effects of a 100 basis point shock.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2022/pdf/rdp2022-04.pdf