Bank Balance Sheet Constraints and Bond Liquidity

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Johannes Breckenfelder

European Central Bank (ECB) - Financial Research

Victoria Ivashina

Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Date Written: May 31, 2021

Abstract

We explore the ties between bonds and individual dealers formed through home advantage and the persistence of previous underwriting relationships. Building on these connections, we show that the introduction of the leverage ratio for the European banks had a large impact on exposed bonds’ liquidity. Moreover, based on these ties, we show that bond mutual fund panic following the 2020 pandemic outbreak affected substantially more mutual funds with the larger exposures to dealer banks’ balance sheet constraints.

Keywords: Bond liquidity; market-making; capital requirements; leverage ratio; mutual funds; COVID-19

JEL Classification: G12, G18, G21

Suggested Citation

Breckenfelder, Johannes and Ivashina, Victoria, Bank Balance Sheet Constraints and Bond Liquidity (May 31, 2021). Proceedings of Paris December 2021 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - ESSEC, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3858543 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3858543

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