No, mientras los bancos encuentren otro sitio menos costoso donde depositarlos. Por ejemplo, usándolos en el intra día en cuenta corriente de otro banco, que le da al 0,75% de remuneración (hasta el tope de reservas legales, a partir del cual no remunera), pero regresando a au sitio al final del día. En realidad, hay demasiada desconfianza de la banca alemana -que es la que tiene gran parte de esos depósitos estériles- para moverlos hacia el sur, que es lo que podría de verdad normalizar ciertas cosas. Como, por ejemplo, los saldos acreedores del Bundesbank frente a los bancos centrales del sur a través del TARGET 2, expresión exactamente refleja del sesgo hacia el norte que toma cualquier emisión de liquidez del BCE.
En otras palabras, la decisión del BCE, supongamos bien intencionada, es estéril, pues mientras la confianza no vuelva a las "colonias del sur", a lo que ha dado lugar es a un tecnicismo para sortear el obstáculo. Aqui, la explicación de...
Greg Fuzesi from JP Morgan…
Last week, the ECB cut its deposit facility rate by 25bp to zero. The cut became effective this week, with the start of the new reserve maintenance period. Unsurprisingly, the usage of the deposit facility declined sharply from €809 billion to €325 billion. Many have been looking at the deposit facility as a gauge of whether banks are “using” the huge amounts of liquidity that they have borrowed from the ECB or whether they are just “parking” it with the central bank. We have argued that the deposit facility is not a good guide to bank behavior. Even if banks “use” the liquidity to make loans or to purchase assets, the liquidity will simply get passed on from one bank to another. At the end of each business day, it will always end up in the deposit facility. Instead, excess liquidity will decline only if banks are able to reduce the amounts they are borrowing form the ECB through refis or, for example, if people put notes/coins under the mattress in huge quantities.
Today’s decline in the deposit facility usage is entirely technical, relating to the way reserves are remunerated by the ECB. In particular, funds held in the current account are paid at the refi rate (0.75%) up to the amount of banks’ legal reserve requirements (€107 billion). Any additional reserves held in the current accounts are paid zero interest. Given that the deposit facility rate is now also at zero, it makes no difference whether banks hold their excess reserves in the current accounts or in the deposit facility. Hence, given that the current account usage rose from €74 billion to €540 billion, the total level of excess reserves has remained at €760 billion today (i.e. the current account and deposit facility balance minus the reserve requirement).
This also suggests that if the ECB were to cut its deposit facility rate to -0.25%, it would have to make some operational changes to make it stick. It would effectively have to pay negative rates on excess funds held in banks’ current accounts or force banks to shift excess reserves into the deposit facility.
Whether a deposit facility rate at zero or slightly below zero will have much effect will depend on how banks in core countries (esp. Germany), who hold most of the excess reserves, feel about having a noticeable part of their balance sheets earning zero interest (or even costing them a couple of billion per year). Will it trigger a search for yield, with each individual bank trying to get rid of its excess reserves by purchasing some higher yielding assets? If yes, then the reserves would circulate more quickly between banks, as in a game of pass the parcel, with asset prices getting pushed higher in the process. The likelihood of this happening would surely be more powerful if governments act to reduce the huge uncertainties facing the region. And to the extent that some of this German cash would find its way back to the periphery, it would allow the level of excess reserves to decline again by reducing the TARGET2 imbalances and allowing peripheral banks to reduce their reliance on the ECB.
Lo de "Colonias del sur" lo digo plenamente convencido de ser expresión de una realidad cada vez más obvia. Somos una colonia gobernada por una metrópoli, de momento camuflada detrás de unas instituciones "europeas", pero cuyo entro de mando es Berlín.
En 1999 cedimos la soberanía monetaria por un plato de lentejas. Ahora, empeñados en sostener al euro, vaca sagrada que nadie se atreve a mover, hemos de ceder la soberanía fiscal.La gente debe darse cuenta que las cosas son contradictorias. Que no se puede defender el euro y a la vez la soberanía fiscal. Asi que el que salga a berrear a la calle, que sepa a qué atenerse. Si queremos euro, no podemos salir a berrear por nuestro sueldo. O se es colonia o se es independiente. Es asi de sencillo al final de una historia mítica que no ha durado ni diez años. Justo cuando celebraban con gran pompa el décimo aniversario del Alien mortifero, este estaba ya en una orgía de destrucción masiva. De momento se ha cepillado la clase media y las instituciones de varios paises, España entre ellos.
Pero desgraciadamente, los fanáticos del euro, los talibanes, son más fuertes en España que en Alemania.
Son muchos, y a ambos lados del expectro político. Y no lo saben los muy tontos. Creer que defendiendo al euro les están jodiendo a los del lado contrario. Patético.
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