The Reserve Bank of Australia is considering actively selling its bond holdings rather than merely letting them shrink gradually via bond redemptions. The main motivation seems to be to reduce interest rate risk on its balance sheet rather than to tighten monetary conditions further. If the Bank were to press ahead, we estimate that it would only be able to sell two-thirds of its holdings and the resulting tightening in financial conditions would be small.
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