Conference Agenda
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MAN: Government Debt Sustainability Location: LR M2.1 (Floor 2) Session Chair: Hanno Lustig, Stanford University | |
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ID: 505
What Does It Take? Quantifying Cross-Country Transfers in the Eurozone 1: Federal Reserve Bank of Saint Louis, United States of America; 2: Northwestern University; 3: Boston College; 4: Stanford University We measure the cross-country transfers that result from unconventional monetary policy in the Eurozone. The ECB funds its balance sheet expansion mostly by issuing bank reserves and cash in core countries. The national central banks (NCBs) in periphery countries then borrow from the core NCBs at below-market rates, and use these funds to finance asset purchases and bank lending. This arrangement exposes taxpayers in core countries to credit and currency risk without corresponding compensation. By comparing the cross-country distribution of NCB income to a counterfactual scenario without non-marketable intra-Eurozone claims, we document significant and persistent cross-country transfers in the Target2 system.
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