Targeted monetary policy, dual rates and bank risk taking

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We assess whether central bank credit operations influence the size and composition of bank credit in a negative interest rate environment. We exploit confidential information from the newly established European credit registry to capture bank lending conditions and bank risk-taking. For identification, we use high-frequency reactions of bank bonds around the announcement of the April 2020 recalibration of the ECB's Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTROs). We find that the credit easing measures had a strong positive effect on bank credit, even when controlling for possible confounding factors. The increase in lending was not accompanied by excessive risk-taking, especially for banks with low intermediation margin, that is, those that were poised to benefit the most from TLTROs' borrowing rates below the interest rates on central bank reserves.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-92-899-5266-8
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ECB Working Paper ; No. 2682

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers ; Monetary Policy ; Financial Crises ; Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
• Subject: unconventional monetary policy ; bank lending ; risk-taking ; dual rates

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Barbiero, Francesca ; Burlon, Lorenzo ; Dimou, Maria ; Toczynski, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): European Central Bank (ECB)
• (where): Frankfurt a. M.
• (when): 2022

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.2866/530966
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/269089
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET