Isabel Schnabel: The benefits and costs of asset purchases
Large-Scale Asset Purchases can impact the price of securities directly, when securities are targeted by the central bank, or indirectly through portfolio re-balancing of private investors.
- Large-Scale Asset Purchases can impact the price of securities directly, when securities are targeted by the central bank, or indirectly through portfolio re-balancing of private investors.
- We quantify both the direct and the portfolio re-balancing impact, emphasizing the role of investor heterogeneity.
- We use proprietary security-level data on asset holdings of different investors.