2015 saw a noticeable reduction on the part of economic agents for assets in foreign currency. This signified a decrease in investments in foreign assets both for the population and for organizations (for individuals – savings in foreign exchange cash) with relatively stable (for...

We investigate if the Bank of England's liquidity facilities encourage some counterparties to participate more than others and if the use of some collateral assets is promoted more than others. Between 2010 and 2016, there was regular usage of two facilities: Indexed Long-Term Repos (ILTR) and...

Over the past three quarters of 2014 the Russian banking sector encountered a constriction of growth in all of its key resource sources. Retail accounts and deposits and foreign liabilities contracted while growth in corporate customers dropped to low levels. Monetary authorities' resources,...

Banks' assets contracted in August due to the shrinking of basically all key types of bank assets. It is only retail accounts and deposits that showed minor positive dynamics, although the downtrend in growth rates was still in place. This also pushed down the growth in the credit portfolio. The...

In July, revocations of banking licenses continued. Asset growth was significantly slowed down as a result of shrinkage of their principal sources – corporate funds and foreign liabilities, as well as a very slow movement of individual deposits. Growth of interest rates has so far produced...

We calibrate to the Brazilian economy a model of means of payment choice, where households have different preferences over anonymity. Financial sector is monopolistically competitive and may break the link between borrowing and lending rates. A sufficiently attractive digital currency reduces...

Russian Abstract: Опубликованная Банком России концепция эмиссии и обращения цифрового рубля предполагает активное выполнение кредитными организациями функций...

Fiat money requires no backing to be accepted at a uniquely determined positive value. I show this using an equilibrium model with realistic frictions and rational households allowed to freely interact in a competitive environment. The model portrays a modern 'cashless' economy relying on...

There are increasingly many digital alternatives to physical cash as basic means of payment, many of these offered by non-financial private sector actors. While such a trend towards a cashless society brings the convenience of digital payments to users and can encourage innovation in financial...

Does the federal funds rate respond to shocks when aggregate reserves are in the trillions of dollars? Has banks' demand for reserves moved over time? We provide a structural time-varying estimate of the slope of the reserve demand curve over 2010-21. We estimate a time-varying vector...