Factors such as the Fed choosing to pay
interest on bank reserve deposits, the large cash holdings of big firms, and the persistent regime uncertainty that makes lending / investing seem particularly risky these days can together explain the reluctance of the banks to turn the monetary base into money via the multiplier process.
Not exact matches
In addition, the Federal
Reserve developed a term
deposit facility to drain
banks»
reserve balances.14 This playbook of draining
reserves back to
reserve scarcity to support the transmission of
interest on reserves into market rates is standard among central
banks.
Instead, when the Fed makes its first rate hike — something that probably won't happen until at least September - 2015 — it will do so by 1) raising the
interest rate paid
on bank reserves, 2) increasing the amount that it pays to borrow money via Reverse Repurchase agreements, and 3) boosting the rate that it offers to financial institutions for term
deposits.
The term of the
deposit is currently up to 21 days and the
interest rate paid is slightly above the rate paid
on bank reserves.
These include changing
bank reserve requirements by making them higher or lower, changing the terms
on which it lends to
banks through its discount window, and changing the rate of
interest it pays
on the
bank reserves it has
on deposit.
These include changing
bank reserve requirements by making them higher or lower, changing the terms
on which it lends to
banks through its discount window, and changing the rate of
interest it pays
on the
bank reserves it has
on deposit.