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The rise of national central banks' TARGET balances: a response to Andrea Terzi

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  • Marcello Minenna

    (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB), Rome, Italy)

  • Giovanni Dosi

    (Scuola Superiore ‘Sant'Anna,’ Pisa, Italy)

  • Andrea Roventini

    (Scuola Superiore ‘Sant'Anna,’ Pisa, Italy and OFCE–Sciences Po, Sophia-Antipolis, France)

Abstract

In response to our paper, ‘ECB monetary expansions and euro area TARGET2 imbalances: a balance-of-payment-based decomposition,’ Professor Andrea Terzi has criticized our approach of TARGET2 balance decomposition, by highlighting a lack of causality between balance-of-payments (BP) flows and TARGET2 net balances. Proving a strong causality link was not within the scope of our paper; while acknowledging that causal relationships are difficult to prove from data that have to fulfill an accounting identity, we still believe that useful information can be extracted from the analysis of BP accounting correspondences. From this perspective a long-term BP reconstruction for Italy and Germany is performed that confirms Terzi's claim about the rise of TARGET2 balances under specific monetary policy configurations.

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  • Marcello Minenna & Giovanni Dosi & Andrea Roventini, 2019. "The rise of national central banks' TARGET balances: a response to Andrea Terzi," European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention, Edward Elgar Publishing, vol. 16(2), pages 169-175, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:ejeepi:v:16:y:2019:i:2:p169-175
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    1. Minenna, Marcello, 2022. "Target 2 determinants: The role of Balance of Payments imbalances in the long run," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 140(C).

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    Keywords

    capital flows; payment system; financial crisis; quantitative easing; interbank lending;
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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F34 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Lending and Debt Problems

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