Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Working Paper Series,
Sveriges Riksbank (Central Bank of Sweden)

No 428: Fed QE and bank lending behaviour:a heterogeneity analysis of asset purchases

Marianna Blix Grimaldi () and Supriya Kapoor ()
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Marianna Blix Grimaldi: Swedish National Dept Office, Postal: Sveriges Riksbank, SE-103 37 Stockholm, Sweden
Supriya Kapoor: Trinity College Dublin

Abstract: Though unconventional monetary policy is still new, already there is a conventional wisdom that the impact of monetary policy is related to the composition of the asset mix. This turns out to be incomplete and potentially misleading. In this paper, we find more complex effects on bank lending from Quantitative Easing (QE) introduced by the Federal Reserve Bank in 2008. The novelty of our approach is to augment the model with bank-level heterogeneity. While there is a relation between lending and the type of assets purchased by the central bank, the impact on similarly QE-exposed banks is also crucially dependent on banks’ solvency and liquidity exposures. Our results highlight that it is necessary to take heterogeneity of exposure into account when assessing the effects of QE.

Keywords: large-scale asset purchases; Federal Reserve; quantitative easing; heterogeneity; liquidity; solvency

JEL-codes: E52; E58; G21

Language: English

43 pages, November 1, 2023

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