While many analyses of monetary policy consider only a target for a short-term nominal interest rate, other dimensions of policy have recently been of greater importance: changes in the supply of bank reserves, changes in the assets acquired by central banks, and changes in the interest rate...

This paper examines the potential role of the interest on reserves as a main monetary policy tool, in a model of financial intermediation with financial and nominal frictions calibrated to US data (1985-2018). The interest on reserves is shown to affect financial spreads and real economic...

This paper examines the potential role of the interest on reserves as a main monetary policy tool, in a model of financial intermediation with financial and nominal frictions calibrated to US data (1985-2018). The interest on reserves is shown to affect financial spreads and real economic...

This paper shows how interbank market fragmentation disrupts the transmission of monetary policy. Fragmentation is the fact that banks, depending on their country of location, have different probabilities of default on their interbank borrowings. Once fragmentation is introduced into standard...