Anne-Laure Delatte, Pranav Garg and Jean Imbs, (2019), “A heterogenous response to unconventional monetary policy”, VoxEU, 21 May
The ECB’s unconventional monetary policy package implemented in February 2012 changed collateral requirements. This column examines the effects in the French credit market, using data on corporate loans. Credit indeed increased after the liquidity injection, exclusively driven by supply. There was also strategic risk-taking by a group of banks, an unintentional implication of the policy.
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