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The effect of TLTRO III on Spanish credit institutions' balance sheets

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  • M.ª Carmen Castillo Lozoya
  • Enrique Esteban García-Escudero
  • M.ª Luisa Pérez Ortiz

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With the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, the ECB's Governing Council modified the conditions of the TLTRO III, aiming to facilitate the flow of bank credit to the real economy. The new conditions encouraged an unprecedented level of take-up of the Eurosystem's refinancing operations by credit institutions. In the case of Spain, all participating banks met the eligible net lending target (that is, loans to non-financial corporations and households, except loans to households for house purchases) established for the period March 2020 to March 2021. To ascertain the impact on banks' balance sheets of this huge liquidity injection via TLTRO III, this article identifies four strategies - lending, holding reserves at the Banco de España, purchase of government debt and substitution for market funding - that banks could implement after applying for TLTRO III funding. The conclusion drawn is that there is a significant relationship between participation in TLTRO III and eligible lending and reserve holding strategies.

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  • M.ª Carmen Castillo Lozoya & Enrique Esteban García-Escudero & M.ª Luisa Pérez Ortiz, 2022. "The effect of TLTRO III on Spanish credit institutions' balance sheets," Economic Bulletin, Banco de España, issue 2/2022.
  • Handle: RePEc:bde:journl:y:2022:i:02:d:aa:n:09
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    Keywords

    monetary policy; ECB; Eurosystem; TLTROs; COVID-19 crisis; Spanish banking system; bank lending; surplus liquidity.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
    • 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

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