The Reserve Supply Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policy

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William Diamond

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

Zhengyang Jiang

Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Yiming Ma

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

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Date Written: September 10, 2020

Abstract

We find that central bank reserves injected by QE crowd out bank lending. We estimate a structural model with cross-sectional instrumental variables for deposit and loan demand. Our results are determined by the elasticity of loan demand and the impact of reserve holdings on the cost of supplying loans. The reserves injected by QE raise loan rates by 7.4 basis points, and each dollar of reserves reduces bank lending by 7.7 cents. Our results imply that a large injection of central bank reserves has the unintended consequence of crowding out bank loans because of bank balance sheet costs.

Keywords: Financial Intermediation, Quantitative Easing, Deposit Competition, Balance Sheet Cost, Structural Estimation

JEL Classification: G21, G28

Suggested Citation

Diamond, William and Jiang, Zhengyang and Ma, Yiming, The Reserve Supply Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policy (September 10, 2020). Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3671160 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3671160

William Diamond

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department ( email )

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Zhengyang Jiang

Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance ( email )

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