TARGET2 balances and the adjustment of capital flows in the Euro area

Yannick Timmer ()
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Yannick Timmer: Trinity College Dublin and IIIS, Ireland

European Economic Letters, 2015, vol. 4, issue 1, 15-19

Abstract: TARGET2 balances emerged from sudden stops in banking capital flows. The turnaround of the balances cannot be assigned to one particularly mechanism. Germany’s commercial banks withdrew their excess liquidity from the Bundesbank and paid back their liabilities against other banks which they had built up during the crisis. Greece and Portugal substituted their TARGET2 balances by bailouts, and Spain as well as Italy attracted most of their net capital inflows privately.

Keywords: Balance of Payments; TARGET2; Capital Flows; Euro Area (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E42 E44 E51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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