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The amount of reserves held by the US banking system reached $1.5 trillion in April 2011. Some economists argue that such a large quantity of bank reserves could lead to overly expansive bank lending as the economy recovers, regardless of the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy. In contrast,...
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We propose a new framework for monetary policy analysis to study monetary policy normalization when exiting a liquidity … trap. The optimal combination of reserves and interest rate policy requires an increase in liquidity (reserves) a few … tightening starts before the liftoff of the policy rate. Moreover, the withdrawal of liquidity takes place at a very slow pace …
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In this paper, we argue that the observed difference in the cost of intraday and overnight liquidity is part of an … optimal payments system design. In our environment, the interest charged on overnight liquidity affects output, while the cost … of intraday liquidity only affects the distribution of resources between money holders and non–money holders. The low …
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This paper studies an overlapping generations economy with capital where limited communication and stochastic relocation create an endogenous transactions role for fiat money. We assume a production function with a knowledge externality (Romer-style) that nests economies with endogenous growth...
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We explore the connection between optimal monetary policy and heterogeneity among agents. We utilize a standard monetary economy with two types of agents that differ in the marginal utility they derive from real money balances — a framework that produces a nondegenerate stationary distribution...
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Liquidity hoarding by banks and extreme volatility of the fed funds rate have been widely seen as severely disrupting … volatility. We develop a model with credit and liquidity frictions in the interbank market consistent with the empirical results … against liquidity shocks. Moreover, the intraday fed funds rate can spike above the discount rate and crash to near zero …
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The Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) System is a large, complex, and understudied government-sponsored liquidity facility … about the respective roles of the various liquidity facilities would be helpful. …
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particular, we do not find that worse performing banks began hoarding liquidity and indiscriminately reducing their lending. …
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In a floor system of monetary policy implementation, the central bank remunerates bank reserves at or near the market rate of interest. Some observers have expressed concern that operating such a system will have adverse fiscal consequences for the public sector and may even require the...
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of liquidity into the banking system. The resulting increase in reserve balances exerted downward price pressure in the …
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