Safe asset shortage and collateral re-use

Category: Finance Brown Bag Seminar
When: 21 April 2021
, 14:00
 - 15:00
Where: online
Speaker: Michael Schneider (Deutsche Bundesbank & SAFE)

Authors: Stephan Jank (Deutsche Bundesbank), Emanuel Moench (Deutsche Bundesbank, Goethe & CEPR) and Michael Schneider (Deutsche Bundesbank & SAFE)

Title: Safe asset shortage and collateral re-use

Abstract: The re-use of collateral can support the efficient allocation of assets in the financial system. Exploiting a novel proprietary data set, we quantify banks’ collateral re-use at the security level. We show that banks substantially increase their re-use of collateral in response to scarcity induced by the Eurosystem’s asset purchases. Repo rates are less sensitive to purchase-induced scarcity at low levels of re-use when the banking system can more easily supply additional collateral. Elevated re-use rates, in turn, are associated with increased volatility of repo rates. 

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