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Economic support during the COVID crisis. Quantitative easing and lending support schemes in the UK

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  • Fatouh, Mahmoud
  • Giansante, Simone
  • Ongena, Steven

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We investigate how UK bank business lending responded to the simultaneous use of quantitative easing, leverage ratio capital requirements, and government COVID lending support schemes. We find no evidence that the Brexit wave increased lending to nonfinancial businesses, compared to the previous waves, except for QE-banks subject to the UK leverage ratio, suggesting that the ratio incentivised QE-banks to lend to businesses. The government schemes helped expand lending especially to SMEs post the COVID wave, indicating that complementing QE with other credit easing programmes can reinforce its impact on lending to the real economy. During COVID-stress, changes to the UK leverage ratio supported better market-making in securities markets, and additional QE liquidity boosted stronger repo market intermediation.

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  • Fatouh, Mahmoud & Giansante, Simone & Ongena, Steven, 2021. "Economic support during the COVID crisis. Quantitative easing and lending support schemes in the UK," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 209(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:209:y:2021:i:c:s0165176521004158
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110138
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    Keywords

    Monetary policy; Quantitative easing; Bank lending;
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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
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages

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