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Quantitative easing in the euro area and SMEs' access to finance : who benefits the most?
Funk, Anne Kathrin - 2018
area slowed down dramatically bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the ECB …’s quantitative easing programme in early 2015 that bank lending improved sustainably. The study analyses the impact of the ECB …’s Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) on the access to finance of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) using firm …
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Mixing QE and interest rate policies at the effective lower bound : micro evidence from the euro area
Bittner, Christian; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Saidi, Farzad; … - 2024
We study the interaction of expansionary rate-based monetary policy and quantitative easing, despite their concurrent implementation, by exploiting heterogeneous banks and the introduction of negative monetary-policy rates in a fragmented euro area. Quantitative easing increases credit supply...
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Mixing QE and interest rate policies at the effective lower bound : micro evidence from the euro area
Bittner, Christian; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Saidi, Farzad; … - 2021 - First version: June 15, 2021, this version: October 12, 2021
In the presence of negative monetary-policy rates and a zero lower bound on deposit rates, banks that are more exposed to central banks' asset-purchase programs reduce their lending to the real economy by more than their counterparts. When banks face a lower bound on customer deposit rates, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649768
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Unconventional monetary policy effects on bank lending in the euro area
Behrendt, Stefan - 2017
This paper employs a structural VAR framework with sign restrictions to estimate the effects of unconventional monetary policies of the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis, mainly in their effectiveness towards bank lending. Using a variable for newly issued credit instead of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602464
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The impact of quantitative easing on bank loan supply and monetary policy implementation in the euro area
Horst, Maximilian; Neyer, Ulrike - 2019
In March 2015, the Eurosystem launched its QE-programme. The asset purchases induced a rapid and strong increase in excess reserves, implying a structural liquidity surplus in the euro area banking sector. Against this background, the first part of this paper analyses the Eurosystem's liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099037
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The transmission mechanism of credit support policies in the Euro Area
Boeckx, Jef; Sola Perea, Maite de; Peersman, Gert - 2017
We use an original monthly dataset of 131 individual euro area banks to examine the effectiveness and transmission mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646726
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ECB corporate QE and the loan supply to bank-dependent firms
Betz, Frank; De Santis, Roberto A. - 2019
Using a representative sample of businesses in the euro area, we show that Eurosystem purchases of corporate bonds under the Corporate Sector Purchase programme (CSPP) increased the net issuance of debt securities, triggering a shift in bank loan supply in favour of firms that do not have access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061148
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Unconventional Monetary Policy, Bank Lending, and Security Holdings : The Yield-Induced Portfolio Rebalancing Channel
Paludkiewicz, Karol - 2019
bank constant at its level in January 2014, well in advance of an anticipation of the ECB's asset purchase program (APP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898444
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Unconventional Monetary Policy, Bank Lending, and Security Holdings : The Yield-Induced Portfolio Rebalancing Channel
Paludkiewicz, Karol - 2018
This paper studies the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank lending and security holdings. I exploit granular security register data and use a difference - in-differences regression setup to provide evidence for the presence of a yield-induced portfolio rebalancing channel: Banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914660
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The new normal: bank lending and negative interest rates in Austria
Barmeier, Marcel - 2022
Evidence on the effects of negative interest rates on bank lending is inconclusive so far. By applying a difference-in-difference estimation using granular loan level data with a large coverage from Austria, I show, contrary to some previous findings, that the introduction of a negative deposit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332415