Abstract
[Autom. eng. transl.] In the short period of time from December 2016 to December 2020, there have been events that have affected the economic scenario, both in relation to the global context and to the one more directly attributable to the Euro Area, such as to induce the Bank's Board of Directors European Central Bank (CdBCE) to reshape its attitude - as far as monetary policy is concerned - by adopting and motivating the operational measures deemed most appropriate as announced in the Bank's monetary policy meetings. In fact, as can be seen in the Appendix of this work in which a synthetic reconstruction of the main events and acts that characterized the activity of the CdBCE is carried out, between December 2016 and mid-2018 there was an attenuation of the downside risks for the global economy and the euro area, which the ECB has followed up by proposing a relaxation of the severe measures in place since mid-2014. Subsequently, in the summer of 2019, the scenario radically changed due to the unsatisfactory results on the in the face of the rise in inflation which led the ECB to retrace its steps to recalibrate the measures to support the euro area economy; measures that were further strengthened, from March 2020, when the first signs of the pandemic crisis appeared which, from that moment, would have shown all its gravity.
The following work intends to outline the quantitative evolution of the items in the ECB's balance sheet following the decisions of the CdBB regarding the monetary policy operations conducted during the period and the liquidity aggregates derived from them (paragraph 1); examine the ECB's securities portfolio following the adoption of measures to support the economy affected by the pandemic (paragraph 2); analyze the balance sheet and the portfolio of government securities of the banking systems of the main euro area countries and of the so-called "foreign investors" (paragraph 3); expose the results of the examination of the technical characteristics of the negotiable public debt securities of the most important countries of the euro area with the aim of identifying a possible prevalent (or common) public security structure (paragraph 4).
Translated title of the contribution | [Autom. eng. transl.] Monetary policy, liquidity and sovereign risk operations in the euro area |
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Original language | Italian |
Pages (from-to) | 3-15 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | OSSERVATORIO MONETARIO |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- operazioni di politica monetaria
- rischio sovrano