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This paper examines German and foreign bank factors that can explain cross-border central bank liquidity flows between … central bank liquidity from abroad than a German bank with fewer existing central bank claims. However, higher overall … liquidity of a German credit institution corresponds to additional net inflows. Foreign bank factors only matter for central …
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We estimate a panel VAR model for the euro area to quantitatively assess how the uneven recourse of national banking systems in the euro area to the ECB's unconventional refinancing operations that led to the accumulation of large TARGET2 balances, has contributed to the propagation of different...
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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 … in 2008–09. Second, the liquidity injected in the market by the ECB played an important role in attenuating the …
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impact on liquidity conditions as measured by bid-ask spreads and inter-dealer order book depth. We further show that the …
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commercial banks to the Eurosystem's open market operations in conjunction with the redistribution of liquidity via the TARGET …
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We assess the macroeconomic effects of the Eurosystem's asset purchases on the four largest euro area economies using simulation exercises that combine unconventional monetary policy shocks with a fixed policy rate for the duration of the purchase programme. We identify unconventional monetary...
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We estimate the "unhedged interest rate exposure" (URE) of euro area households. The URE is a welfare metric that captures the extent to which households are exposed to changes in real interest rates, and reflects the direct gains and losses in interest income flows incurred by households after...
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We study the distributional consequences of housing price, bond price and equity price increases for Euro Area households using data from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). The capital gains from bond price and equity price increases turn out to be concentrated among relatively...
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We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach-for-yield. For identification, we exploit the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more...
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Europe and Russia. Notably, bilateral integration with the eurozone is a key determinant of the strength of spillovers, with …
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