The transfer of risks is inherent to the motivation of OMT because sources of impaired monetary policy transmission are unevenly distributed geographically. It is inevitable because imposing constraints on OMT due to risk sharing considerations would weaken its effectiveness and hamper the ECB in its pursuit of price stability. Let me say a more general word on the distributional neutrality of monetary policy6.
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