The Impact of Corporate QE on Liquidity: Evidence from the UK
Lena Boneva,
David Elliott,
Iryna Kaminska,
Oliver Linton,
Nick McLaren and
Ben Morley
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Abstract:
In August 2016, the Bank of England (BoE) announced a Corporate Bond Purchase Scheme (CBPS) to purchase up to $10bn of sterling corporate bonds. To investigate the impact of these purchases on liquidity, we create a novel dataset that combines transaction-level data from the secondary corporate bond market with proprietary offer-level data from the BoE's CBPS auctions. Identifying the impact of central bank asset purchases on liquidity is potentially impacted by reverse causality, because liquidity considerations might impact purchases. But the offer-level data allow us to construct proxy measures for the BoE's demand for bonds and auction participants' supply of bonds, meaning that we can control for the impact of liquidity on purchases. Across a range of liquidity measures, we find that CBPS purchases improved the liquidity of purchased bonds.
Keywords: Quantitative easing; Market liquidity; Market-making; Corporate bonds (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E52 E58 G12 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03-29
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Journal Article: The Impact of Corporate QE on Liquidity: Evidence from the UK (2022)
Working Paper: The impact of corporate QE on liquidity: evidence from the UK (2020)
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