Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39640
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 03-2004
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
Open market operations play a key role in allocating central bank funds to the banking system and thereby to steer short-term interest rates in line with the stance of monetary policy. Many central banks apply so-called “fixed rate tender” auctions in their open market operations. This note presents, on the basis of a survey of central bank experience, a model of bidding in such tenders. In their conduct of fixed rate tenders, many central banks faced specifically an “under”- and an “overbidding” problem. These phenomena are revisited in the light of the proposed model and the more general question of the optimal tender procedure and allotment policy of central banks is addressed.
Subjects: 
open market operations
tender procedures
central bank liquidity management
JEL: 
D84
E43
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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