Making Room for the Needy: The Credit-Reallocation Effects of the ECB’s Corporate QE*

Whatever it takes: the real effects of unconventional monetary policy

Óscar Arce, Sergio Mayordomo and Ricardo Gimeno

Review of Finance, 2021, vol. 25, issue 1, 43-84

Abstract: We analyze how the ECB’s purchases of corporate bonds under its Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP) affected the financing of Spanish firms. We first document that the announcement of the CSPP in March 2016 raised firms’ propensity to issue bonds. The flipside was a drop in the demand for bank loans by bond issuers. Around 75% of the drop in loans previously made to debt issuers was redirected to other, smaller nonbond issuing firms. This reallocation process was led by banks with weaker liquidity positions experiencing credit outflows, which extended credit to the same firms they were rationing prior to the CSPP. This positive credit supply shock raised the real investment of nonissuing firms. The concomitant ECB’s Targeted Longer-Term Refinancing Operations (TLTRO-II) is estimated to have contributed to amplifying the credit-reallocation effect triggered by the CSPP.

Keywords: Unconventional monetary policy; Corporate sector purchase programme; Quantitative easing; Portfolio rebalancing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E52 E58 G12 G15 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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