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The impact of central bank liquidity support on banks’ sovereign exposures

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  • Leo de Haan
  • Sarah Holton
  • Jan Willem van den End

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We empirically analyse the relationship between longer term central bank liquidity support and banks’ exposures to governments, using difference-in-differences panel regressions and propensity score matching on a large sample of banks in the euro area. The research question is whether the liquidity operations, which were introduced to prevent disorderly deleveraging, can also be linked to unintended changes in banks’ asset allocations, in particular to carry trades in government bonds. The results show that unconditional and conditional refinancing operations have a different effect on banks’ government exposures. Unconditional longer-term refinancing operations went together with more carry trades in stressed countries, i.e. banks borrowing more while increasing their holdings of government bonds. In contrast, refinancing operations that were conditional on banks’ lending were not associated with such carry trades, highlighting the benefits of conditionality attached to long-term refinancing operations.

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  • Leo de Haan & Sarah Holton & Jan Willem van den End, 2021. "The impact of central bank liquidity support on banks’ sovereign exposures," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(15), pages 1788-1806, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:53:y:2021:i:15:p:1788-1806
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2020.1853667
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    1. Marcel Barmeier & Juraj Falath & Alena Kissova & Adriana Lojschova, 2023. "Impact of TLTRO III on bank lending: The Slovak experience," Working and Discussion Papers WP 2/2023, Research Department, National Bank of Slovakia.
    2. Fudulache, Adina-Elena & Goetz, Martin R., 2023. "Long-term deposit funding and demand for central bank funds: Evidence from targeted longer-term refinancing operations," Discussion Papers 12/2023, Deutsche Bundesbank.
    3. Joost Bats & Tom Hudepohl, 2019. "Impact of targeted credit easing by the ECB: Bank-level evidence," DNB Working Papers 631, Netherlands Central Bank, Research Department.
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    5. Atsuki Hirata & Yuichiro Ito & Yoshiyasu Kasai, 2024. "Impact of the Fund-Provisioning Measure to Stimulate Bank Lending in Japan," Bank of Japan Working Paper Series 24-E-24, Bank of Japan.
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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
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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