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Bailey: How much of a constraint is headroom?

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Q: How much of a constraint is headroom?

A: Argument CB balance sheet has a countercyclical property in terms of its size. If you don't reduce the balance sheet, no natural limit to size of what CB balance sheet can be. But a lot of markets need government debt, so does that create limits? Long way to go in analysing.

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