SDR Rechanneling and ECB Rules

Stephen Paduano

No 2305, FDL Policy Notes from CEPREMAP

Abstract: Eurozone countries are financially and politically pivotal to the Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) rechannelling agenda.1 Collectively, they hold $200bn in SDRs (just over 20% of all SDRs), and the Eurozone countries which are G-20 members hold $120bn in SDRs (just under 20% of the G-20’s SDRs). These countries are also the most ambitious and proactive members of the SDR system, with France being the first advocate of SDR rechanneling and Spain being the first to rechannel (to the IMF Resilience and Sustainability Trust - RST). However, the Eurozone’s capacity to lead on and participate in SDR rechanneling has been complicated by the European Central Bank (ECB). President Lagarde has expressed that SDR rechanneling to Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) may not preserve the reserve asset characteristic of the SDR and may violate the prohibition on monetary financing. Building on Paduano and Maret (2023), this paper demonstrates that certain forms of SDR rechanneling can clearly satisfy the ECB’s concerns — and, more importantly, that the rechanneling of reserve assets to multilateral development banks already occurs.

Keywords: European Central Bank; eurosystem; national central banks; Special Drawing Rights; International Monetary Fund; World Bank; global development; international financial architecture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2023-05
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