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The ongoing policy strategy review presents a unique opportunity for the ECB to examine how to best employ its immense power to fulfil its mandate. Two challenges require urgent attention. First, the “lowflation” problem – the outcome of overly tight policies that allowed inflation to...
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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 …
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The Eurosystem collateral framework (ESCF) has played a key role in the ECB monetary policy implementation since 1999 … underlined the importance of central bank collateral frameworks. Broad collateral frameworks have helped prevent large … first explains and justifies the logic of collateral frameworks in general and that of the ESCF in particular. It then …
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We study how the Eurosystem Collateral Framework for corporate bonds helps the European Central Bank (ECB) fulfill its … due to the increased supply and demand for pledgeable collateral following eligibility, (i) securities lending market … collateral supply, thereby making the market more cohesive and complete. Following eligibility, bond-issuing firms reduce bank …
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In this paper, I analyze the impact of the extension of the ECB s collateral framework on securities sales. In addition … lead to fire sales adversely impacting other financial institutions. I find clear evidence that the ECB s collateral …
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study the intended and unintended consequences of asset purchases in the repo market with Bund collateral. Bunds that are …
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Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) have evolved in these three countries since their introduction at the turn of the century. Support for the euro in the two euroarea members...
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We study the macroeconomic effects of unconventional monetary policy in the euro area using structural vector autoregressions, identified with an external instrument. The instrument is the common unexpected variation in euro area sovereign spreads for different maturities on policy announcement...
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bank's choice of collateral standards in its lending facilities. Optimism on the side of banks, entailing a higher … collateral value of bank loans, can lead to excessive lending and bank default. Pessimism, though, can entail insufficient … lending and productivity losses. With an appropriate haircut on collateral, the central bank can perfectly neutralize the …
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The ECB's one size monetary policy is unlikely to fit all euro area members at all times, which raises the question of how much monetary policy stress this causes at the national level. I measure monetary policy stress as the difference between actual ECB interest rates and Taylor-rule implied...
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