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The response of interest rates to money announcement surprises is examined both theoretically and empirically in this paper. In the theoretical models developed, not only changes in operating procedures, but also reserve requirement systems, are found to potentially affect the response....
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imperfect bank arbitrage of reserve demand between days of the week. Some stylized facts are presented about funds rate behavior …
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the macroeconomic effects of changes in central bank interest rates. To properly identify exogenous central bank interest …
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Affirmative action policies are often implemented through reserve systems. We contend that the functioning of these systems is counterintuitive, and that the consequent misunderstanding leads individuals to support policies that ineffectively pursue their goals. We present 1,013 participants in...
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fundamental reserve demands of Fed member banks, we find that despite being doubled, reserve requirements were not binding on bank …
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discourage and sterilize international capital flows. In this paper we utilize an open economy macro model incorporating bank …
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In this paper we use the relative movements in bank loans and commercial paper to provide evidence on the existence of … the availability of bank loans. We find that tighter monetary policy leads to a shift in firms' mix of external financing … -- commercial paper issuance rises while bank loans fall, suggesting that loan supply has indeed been reduced. Furthermore, these …
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An implicit rationale for a bank reserve requirement is that a central monetary authority is in a unique position (as …
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forecasting is that the funds rate sensitively records shocks to the supply of (not the demand for) bank reserves, i.e. the funds … "credit" (that is, bank loans) as well as through "money" (that is, bank deposits) - even though bank loans fail to Granger …
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instrument of monetary policy. We show that by paying an appropriate rate on reserves, the central bank can pin the price level …
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