Jank, Stephan; Mönch, Emanuel; Schneider, Michael - 2022
The reuse of collateral can support the efficient allocation of safe assets in the financial system. Exploiting a novel … dataset, we show that banks substantially increase their reuse of sovereign bonds in response to scarcity induced by … Eurosystem asset purchases. While repo rates react little to purchase-induced scarcity when reuse is low, they become …