 Target 2 determinants: The role of Balance of Payments imbalances in the long runMarcello Minenna Journal of Banking & Finance, 2022, vol. 140, issue C Abstract: Target2 (T2) balances in the Eurozone are again in a divergent trend after the pandemic shock. The recent financial literature seems to have reached a consensus about the need to characterize such phenomena under specific monetary policy configurations variable in time. T2 balances can be decomposed by using the balance of payments (BoP) identities. Indeed, proving a strong causality link from data that have to fulfill an accounting identity can be challenging, since the closer the data are to an accounting identity, the less information on causal relation can be inferred from econometric techniques. Nevertheless we believe that useful information can be extracted from accounting correspondences. In this perspective, both long-term and short-term BoP decompositions are performed for Italy, Germany and France under different regimes of monetary policies in the Euro Area, showing the uttermost importance of current account imbalances and interbank credit flows in determining the behavior of T2 net balances. Keywords: Capital flows; Payment system; Financial crisis; Quantitative easing; Interbank lending (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jbfina:v:140:y:2022:i:c:s0378426621000170 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2021.106059 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Banking & Finance is currently edited by Ike Mathur More articles in Journal of Banking & Finance from Elsevier |
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