Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93643 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 642
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Monetary policy measures taken by the Federal Reserve as a response to the 2007-09 financial crisis and subsequent economic conditions led to a large increase in the level of outstanding reserves. The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has a range of tools to control short-term market rates in this situation. We study several of these tools, namely, interest on excess reserves (IOER), reverse repurchase agreements (RRPs), and the term deposit facility (TDF). We find that overnight RRPs (ON RRPs) may provide a better floor on rates than term RRPs because they are available to absorb daily liquidity shocks. Whether the TDF or RRPs best support equilibrium rates depends on the intensity of interbank monitoring costs versus balance sheet costs, respectively, that banks face. In our model, using the RRP and TDF concurrently may most effectively stabilize short-term rates close to the IOER rate when such costs are rapidly increasing.
Subjects: 
monetary policy
fixed-rate full allocation overnight reverse repurchases
term deposit facility
interest on excess reserves
FOMC
banking
JEL: 
E42
E43
G12
G20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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