The Reserve Supply Channel of Unconventional Monetary Policy
We find that central bank reserves injected by QE crowd out bank lending. We estimate a structural model with cross-sectional instrumental variables for deposit and loan demand. Our results are determined by the elasticity of loan demand and the impact of reserve holdings on the cost of supplying loans. The reserves injected by QE raise loan rates by 8.2 basis points, and each dollar of reserves reduces bank lending by 8.1 cents. Our results imply that a large injection of central bank reserves has the unintended consequence of crowding out bank loans because of bank balance sheet costs.
Non-Technical Summaries
- Banks face a tradeoff between lending out as many of their assets as possible to maximize interest revenue and keeping enough liquid...
Published Versions
William Diamond & Zhengyang Jiang & Yiming Ma, 2024. "The reserve supply channel of unconventional monetary policy," Journal of Financial Economics, vol 159.