Central Banking

ECB paper flags risk of ‘collateral damage’ from financial transaction tax

Financial transaction tax could limit access to central bank liquidity

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Research published by the European Central Bank on May 22 seeks to quantify the impact of a rise in transaction costs on the availability of collateral, in light of proposals for a financial transaction tax in Europe.

In the working paper, Collateral damage? Micro-simulation of transaction cost shocks on the value of central bank collateral, authors Rudolf Alvise Lennkh and Florian Walch test the impact of a 10-basis point rise in transaction costs, finding aggregate collateral value falls 0.3%

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