Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189935 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 335
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
We present a search theoretic model of over-the-counter debt with quantitative easing (QE). The impact of central bank asset purchases on yields depend on market tightness, which is determined by shares of preferred habitat investors. The model predicts that the impact of government bond purchases is higher in countries with a higher share of preferred habitat investors. Furthermore, there is a trade-off with liquidity, which is not present in other models of QE. We present a new index for the share of preferred habitat investors holding government bonds in Eurozone countries, based on the ECB's securities and holdings statistics, which we use to match the impact of QE on the observed yield changes in data and to test our model.
Subjects: 
Quantitative easing
liquidity
search and matching
JEL: 
E52
E58
G12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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