Arbeitspapier
How do banks manage liquidity? Evidence from the ECB's tiering experiment
We study how banks manage their liquidity among the various assets at their disposal. We exploit the introduction of the ECB's two-tier system which heterogeneously reduced the cost of additional reserves holdings. We find that the treated banks increase reserve holdings by borrowing on the interbank market, decreasing lending to affiliates of the same group, and selling marketable securities. We also find that banks have a preference for a stable portfolio composition of liquid assets over time. Our results imply that frictions in one market for liquidity can spill over to several markets.
- ISBN
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978-92-899-5319-1
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2732
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
Monetary Policy
- Subject
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Bank liquidity
central bank reserves
money markets
government bonds
monetary policy implementation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Baldo, Luca
Heider, Florian
Hoffmann, Peter
Sigaux, Jean-David
Vergote, Olivier
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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European Central Bank (ECB)
- (where)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (when)
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2022
- DOI
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doi:10.2866/613698
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baldo, Luca
- Heider, Florian
- Hoffmann, Peter
- Sigaux, Jean-David
- Vergote, Olivier
- European Central Bank (ECB)
Time of origin
- 2022