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We show that the transmission of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent monetary policy tightening differs across banks depending on their level of excess reserves. Specifically, the net worth of reserve-rich banks may display a boost when the interest rate paid on reserves increases...
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We analyze the impact of market liquidity on bank lending in the euro area for different segments over the period 2003 … to 2016. Our results on the aggregate level show that market liquidity is positively related to loan volumes and … liquidity has an asymmetric effect on bank lending: The negative impact of a reduction in liquidity is more significant than the …
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-sensitive business model are more likely to reduce reserve holdings and allocate freed-up liquidity to loans. The result is driven by …
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By combining the approaches of Gertler and Karadi (2011) and Bernanke et al. (1999), I develop a DSGE model with leverage constraints both in the banking and in the non-financial firm sector. I calibrate this "full model" to US data. In a world with only a monetary policy and a productivity...
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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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liquidity tightened after the Lehman collapse but there is no evidence of fire sales in the German banking sector. Instead, we … observe a broad-based flight to liquidity. The European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy had a strong impact on … banks' trading behavior by inducing shifts towards eligible securities and reducing pressure on market liquidity. This …
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This paper studies how banks’ balance sheets and funding costs interact in the transmission of monetary-policy rates to banks’ credit supply to firms. To do so, we use credit-registry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The...
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structural liquidity positions in 2007Q2 to estimate the impact of exposure to market freezes during 2007–08 on the supply of … particular, banks that were ex ante more dependent on market funding and had lower structural liquidity reduced the supply of …
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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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Exploiting confidential data on individual German bank balance-sheets, I analyse what characterises a bank that opts to apply negative interest rates to corporate deposits. The results suggest that banks that are highly exposed to the negative interest rate policy (NIRP), i.e. funded by a larger...
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