The Canadian overnight repo market persistently shows signs of latent funding pressure around month-end periods. Both the overnight repo rate and Bank of Canada liquidity provision tend to rise in these windows. This paper proposes three non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to explain this...

Using an event-study design, we investigate monetary policy interest-rate-to-performance sensitivity of the European banking sector over the 07/2012-06/2017 period when interest rates were (close to) zero. We apply the Wordscores approach to introductory statements of ECB's Governing Council...

The negative interest rate policy (NIRP) has been in place in the euro area since June 2014. While the NIRP can provide additional monetary accommodation in the situation where the neutral rate of interest is most likely negative, there are also unintended consequences for banks’ profitability...

This paper decomposes the bond yield into the segmentation factor using Japan's unique dataset. For controlling the channel of future expectation and the term premium, we take advantage of the government guaranteed bond, which is the identical asset as the government bond except the liquidity...

This paper studies the effects of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) forward guidance language. I estimate two policy surprises at FOMC meetings: a change in the current federal funds rate and an orthogonal change in the expected path of the federal funds rate. From February 2000 to June 2003,...

This is the first study known to analyze fixed-rate purchase operations by the Bank of Japan (BOJ), as conducted under the policy of Quantitative and Qualitative Easing (QQE) with Yield Curve Control (YCC). On February 3, 2017, the BOJ conducted the first unlimited purchase of 10-year Japanese...

We identify frictions in the market for liquidity as well as bank-specific and market-wide factors that affect the prices that banks pay for liquidity, captured here by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank and benchmarked by the overnight index swap. We have price data at the...

Over the last two years, several central banks in Europe have adopted NIRP to achieve price stability and/or reduce appreciation pressures. Negative interest rates have supported easier financial conditions and contributed to a modest expansion in credit, demonstrating that the zero lower bound...

Bilateral payment flows between banks may provide private information about a borrowing bank's liquidity position. This paper analyses whether private information on the bilateral payment flow of central bank reserves foster peer monitoring or whether the information is used to reduce search...