Starting in summer 2014, markets began to build up expectations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would embark on large-scale sovereign bond purchases. The ECB's Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) was eventually announced on 22 January 2015 and purchases started in March. Both during the...

This paper sheds light on the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on bank lending. Using data on German banks for 2014-2016, I show that QE encourages banks to rebalance from securities to loans. For identification, I use bond redemptions as exogenous variation in banks' need to rebalance their...

We investigate the effectiveness of yield curve control (YCC) vis-à-vis other unconventional monetary policies (UMP) in a panel difference-in-differences framework of 26 economies that employed UMP between 1995 and mid-2021 for countries that made YCC related announcements. Shadow rates are...