Unconventional monetary policy operations: The upside for central bank balance sheet risks

A bank’s balance sheet lists its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity, each of which is subject to risk. This column uses the examples of the announcement of the ECB’s Outright Monetary Transactions programme and the first very-long-term refinancing operation allotment to show that, in exceptional circumstances, a central bank can remove illiquidity-related credit risk from parts of its balance sheet by extending the scale of its operations.

Πηγή: Voxeu

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