Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246192 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Occasional Paper No. 261
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Asset encumbrance is a central concept in the context of banks' liquidity crises, as it is associated with their capacity to obtain secured funding. This occasional paper summarises the work carried out by the task force on asset encumbrance, bringing together analyses by the ECB and those national competent authorities working on the topic. First, we describe how asset encumbrance has evolved in euro area banks, focusing on country and business model aggregates. Second, we conduct an econometric analysis of the driving factors of banks' asset encumbrance, highlighting the relevance of credit risk, the availability of high quality collateral suitable for encumbrance, capital and sovereign funding conditions. Third, we turn our focus to the asset encumbrance dynamics of banks that have experienced a crisis. The outcome of this event study analysis indicates that asset encumbrance increases in the lead-up to a crisis, partly to offset early deposit outflows. Building on these findings, we show that asset encumbrance indicators carry predictive information for bank-specific crises as part of a multivariate early warning model.
Subjects: 
asset encumbrance
liquidity
bank funding
collateral
bank crisis
earlywarning model
panel econometrics
JEL: 
G21
G01
G28
C23
C49
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-4566-0
Document Type: 
Research Report

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