Will QE hit the buffers before the job is done?

Concerns that the ECB will struggle to find enough willing sellers of assets to implement its quantitative easing programme may be wide of the mark. But limits set by the Bank itself imply little scope for the programme to be expanded beyond its current size and suggest that its impact will be more modest than the equivalent policies implemented in the US and UK.


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