Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208259 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2225
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We address the question to what extent a central bank can de-risk its balance sheet by unconventional monetary policy operations. To this end, we propose a novel risk measurement framework to empirically study the time-variation in central bank portfolio credit risks associated with such operations. The framework accommodates a large number of bank and sovereign counterparties, joint tail dependence, skewness, and time-varying dependence parameters. In an application to selected items from the consolidated Eurosystem's weekly balance sheet between 2009 and 2015, we find that unconventional monetary policy operations generated beneficial risk spill-overs across monetary policy operations, causing overall risk to be nonlinear in exposures. Some policy operations reduced rather than increased overall risk.
Subjects: 
Credit risk
risk measurement
central bank
lender-of-last-resort
unconventional monetary policy
JEL: 
G21
C33
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-3487-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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