their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire … Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central banks increase the set of eligible collateral assets. However, if the … investigate how unlimited liquidity provision affects collateral prices. Also, I match banks' trades with their balance sheet and …

study the intended and unintended consequences of asset purchases in the repo market with Bund collateral. Bunds that are …

. This collateral framework shock added loans to non-domestic euro area firms to the pool of eligible assets. Using loan …How does a shock to the liquidity of bank assets affect credit supply, cross-border lending, and real activity at the … firm level? We exploit that, in 2007, the European Central Bank replaced national collateral frameworks by a single list …

productivity shocks or on the productivity shock from one dominating region. Thereby, we demonstrate a channel through which the …

We utilize the Eurosystem securities lending facilities as a laboratory to investigate the impact of collateral … overall activity in the repo market expands through the collateral multiplier. The improved pricing conditions alleviate … collateral scarcity and enhance market quality in both the repo and cash markets. …

area. In a structural VAR, we identify a liquidity shock rooted in the interbank market and use its impulse response … Gertler and Kiyotaki (2010). We highlight two main results. First, an identified liquidity shock causes a sizable and … persistent fall in investment. The shock can account for one third of the observed, large fall in euro area aggregate investment …