Direkt zum Inhalt

Real Effects of Financial Market Integration: Evidence from an ECB Collateral Framework Change

Discussion Papers 2012, 52 S.

Pia Hüttl, Matthias Kaldorf

2022. Revised Version, February 2023.

get_appDownload (PDF  0.64 MB)

Abstract

Does central bank collateral policy contribute to financial market integration? We address this question by exploiting that, in 2007, the European Central Bank replaced national collateral frameworks by a single list. Under the single list regime, euro area banks could pledge all euro area bank loans as collateral, not only domestic loans as before the framework change. Banks holding a large share of newly eligible cross-border bank loans increase loan supply compared to banks with smaller holdings to such loans. The additional credit supply is predominately targeted at previously eligible domestic borrowers, suggesting only a small effect on financial integration. However, we find evidence that firms which are highly exposed to affected banks experience a relaxation of borrowing constraints and increase their real activity. The effects of harmonized collateral policy, thus, closely resemble the effects of expansionary credit policy, while it was less successful in stimulating direct cross-border lending.

Pia Hüttl

Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department



JEL-Classification: E44;E52;E58;G20;G21
Keywords: Collateral policy, bank lending channel, financial integration, banking union, real effects
Frei zugängliche Version: (econstor)
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/263157

keyboard_arrow_up