Whatever it Takes. What's the Impact of a Major Nonconventional Monetary Policy Intervention?

34 Pages Posted: 30 Oct 2018

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Carlos Alcaraz

Independent

Stijn Claessens

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Gabriel Cuadra

Banco de México

David Marques-Ibanez

European Central Bank (ECB)

Horacio Sapriza

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Date Written: October 1, 2018

Abstract

We assess how a major, unconventional central bank intervention, Draghi's "whatever it takes" speech, affected lending conditions. Similar to other large interventions, it responded to adverse financial and macroeconomic developments that also influenced the supply and demand for credit. We avoid such endogeneity concerns by comparing credit granted and its conditions by individual banks to the same borrower in a third country. We show that the intervention reversed prior risk-taking - in volume, price, and risk ratings - by subsidiaries of euro area banks relative to other local and foreign banks. Our results document a new effect of interventions and are robust along many dimensions.

Keywords: unconventional monetary policy, credit conditions, spillovers

JEL Classification: E51, F34, G21

Suggested Citation

Alcaraz, Carlos and Claessens, Stijn and Cuadra, Gabriel and Marques-Ibanez, David and Sapriza, Horacio, Whatever it Takes. What's the Impact of a Major Nonconventional Monetary Policy Intervention? (October 1, 2018). BIS Working Paper No. 749, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3258769

Carlos Alcaraz

Independent

Stijn Claessens (Contact Author)

Bank for International Settlements (BIS) ( email )

Centralbahnplatz 2
CH-4002 Basel
Switzerland

Gabriel Cuadra

Banco de México

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Col. Centro, Deleg. Cuauhtémoc
Ciudad de México, DF, 06059
Mexico

David Marques-Ibanez

European Central Bank (ECB) ( email )

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Frankfurt am Main, 60314
Germany
49 6913 44 6460 (Phone)
49 6913 44 6460 (Fax)

Horacio Sapriza

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ( email )

20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20551
United States

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