... Sources ofBank Reserves Figure 5 illustrates the link between the size oftheFederalReserve s liquidity facilities and the quantity of reserves in the banking system. The top half of this figure ... area in the figure. Under this program, the Treasury issued new securities and left the proceeds from the sale of these securities on deposit at theFederal Reserve; the net effect of this operation ... lends to Bank B The goal ofthe central bank s lending policy here is to mitigate the effects ofthe disruption in the interbank market by maintaining the flow of credit fromthe banking...
... 8: The Post-Crisis Backstop ofthe Shadow Banking System Equity Equity Equity EquityEquityCPetc. CNs*EquityCPMTNs MTNs MTNsEquity Equity EquityEquityEquity Equity Equity Equity Equity ... to the enhancement ofthe credit quality of debt issued by the intermediary through the use of priority of claims. For example, the credit quality of senior deposits is better than the credit ... crisis to benefit fromthe liquidity facilities rolled out in the wake ofthe bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and their demise may well have accelerated and deepened the crisis, while also necessitating...
... enhancement ofthe credit quality of debt issued by the intermediary through the use of priority of claims. For example, the credit quality of senior deposits is better than the credit quality ofthe ... suggesting there was no risk transfer despite the capital relief. The motivation for capital arbitrage is consistent with the mispricing of explicit credit and liquidity put options associated with ... single entity. Savers entrust their funds to banks in the form of deposits, which banks use to fund loans to borrowers. Savers furthermore own the equity and long term debt issuance ofthe banks. ...
... economies of specie.68 The inability of existing banks to branch allowed newbanks to arise solely to increase the geographical coverage of banking services. TheBank of the Northern Liberties, ... Over-emphasizing the negative aspects of America’s banking experience risks obscuring the contributions that tens of thousands of institutions, many of them community banks like the Merchants BankofNew ... Merchants’ Bank balances are available from Warren Weber. Data on the otherbanksisfrom J. Smith Homans, ed., Bankers’ Magazine and Statistical Register (July 1853), 718. The analysis is limited...
... be58AsEME’sbegintoindustrialize,theyinitiallyhave the benefit of rapidurbanization(asagriculturalproductivityrises)and the internationaltransfer of technology.Overtimeboth of these“catchup“factorssupportinggrowthbecomelessimportant.59 Itis importanttonotethat the debatewaswith the Keynes ofthe “Treatise”andnotyet the Keynes ofthe “GeneralTheory”.In the TreatiseonMoney,Keynescalledformonetaryauthoritiestotake“extraordinary”,“unorthodox”monetarypoliciestodealwith the slump.Kregel(2011)p1,contendsthat The unorthodoxpoliciesthatKeynesrecommendsareanearlyperfectdescription” ofthe ultraeasymonetarypoliciesfollowedinJapan,andmorerecentlyin other countries.Recall,asnotedabove,thatKeynes’enthusiasmforsuchmonetarymeasureshadfadedby the time ofthe GeneralTheory. ... shadowbanking.Finally,supposethatcentral bank purchases of governmentpaperarearesponsetoamarketdriven“run”thatcouldbecomeselffulfilling120. Is thisnotexactly the kind of situation115Inmid2012,somecommentatorssuggested the ECBshouldstartpayingnegativeinterestratesonreservesheldat the ECB. The initialECBresistancetothissuggestionwasbasedinpartonthisconcern.Anotherworry,arising from recentDanishexperience,wasthat banks wouldthenhavetorecouplossesbyraisingratesonloans.Inthisway,monetaryeasingmightprovecontractionary.116Leijonhufvud(2009)makes the relatedpointthat,inchoosingwhotosupportandwhonot,central banks aremakingchoiceswithdistributionalimplications.Issues of distributionfallmorenormallyin the realm of politicsandwillattract the attention of politicians.117Hanoun(2011)expressesconcernthat the focus of central banks onpricestabilitywillbedilutedbyfinancialdominance,fiscaldominanceandalsoexchangeratedominance.Thislastconcernrefersto the “fear of floating”,referredtoabove,thathasextended the creditdrivenproblemsin the AMEsto the EMEsaswell.118 The central banksof manycountrieshaveoperatedwithnegativecapitalfordecades;e.g.,Chile,Jamaicaandothers.119Thisauthor,andBorioandothersat the BIS,havebeenmakingthispointformanyyears. The practicalimplication is thatpricestabilitytargetsshouldextendoverahorizonlongenoughtoallowimbalancestounwind.Thus,toleanagainstacreditbubble is toleanagainstsomecombination of possiblenearterminflationarypressuresand/or the possibility of excessivedisinflation(orevendeflation)over the mediumterm.SeeWhite(2006a).Operationally,thisimpliesthatseparating the pricestabilityfunction fromthe financialstabilityfunctionatcentral banksis logicallywrong.SeeWhite(2012a).Issing(2012)remindsus,however, of someimportantpoliticalconsiderationsthatcouldqualifythisconclusion.120 The problem is one of multipleequilibria.Asovereignmaybesolventgivenreasonableinterestrates,butnotifarunpushesupratesbeyondsomelimit. ... waspart (indeed the core) ofthe traditionalmandate of central banks. Theywouldnotethat,sincefinancialinstabilitycanleadtodeflation(which is notpricestabilityeither), the concernsaboutpriceandfinancialinstabilityaresimplytwosides...
... Discussion Purposes Only Bringing Social Impact Bonds to NewYork City The City ofNewYork Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor What are the Benefits? ã Investing in outcomes to improve the ... oversees the day-to-day implementation ofthe project and manages the Osborne Association and Friends of Island Academy, the two non-profit service providers that deliver the intervention; ã The ... Friends of Island Academy will deliver the intervention through trained facilitators working closely with DOE and DOC staff – Part of Mayor’s Young Men’s Initiative and the City’s commitment...
... The SBV also increased the risk weightings for certain assets, including loans for the Asia Focus is a periodic newsletter issued by the Country Analysis Unit oftheFederalReserveBankof ... tools for measuring banks capital ade-quacy. The first is a minimum nominal amount of capital that banks must hold. This amount varies de-pending on the type of bank, but it does not automati-cally ... state-owned banks, partially privatized banks, joint ventures and foreign institu-tions. The growing presence of foreign banks through investments in Vietnamese banks and the es-tablishment of wholly...
... Riots New Material for History of Draft Riots History ofthe Rebellionincomplete without History of them The Fate ofthe Nation resting on the Issues ofthe Struggle in New York City The best ... I.Character of a City illustrated by Riots New Material for History of Draft Riots History ofthe Rebellionincomplete without History of them The Fate ofthe Nation resting on the Issues ofthe Struggle ... is disposed to sustain the constitution and laws, therefore, be it "Resolved, That in order to preserve the peace ofthe city, and especially ofthe Sixth Ward, the friends of the constitution...
... that the current inflation rate depends on its lagged values, on the fluctuation ofthe exchange rate in the previous period and on the two-period lag ofthe output gap. The verticality ofthe ... to the presence of unit root in the time series ofthe terms of trade gap for periods after 2008:02. 20 In 2008, particularly from September on, the world financial crisis worsened, with the ... in credit lines in the 24 As registered by the Annual Report of CRBP (1999), this larger dynamism showed the end ofthe recession that Peru had been in due to the negative effects ofthe El...
... equity has entered the sector. On the one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the capacity of not-for-profit entities ... given to theReserveBank under theReserveBank Act and therefore the ReserveBankis already the regulator for NBFC-MFIs. While it may be true that perhaps in the past theReserveBank did ... recourse but credit enhancement is given, the value ofthe credit enhancement is deducted fromthe Net Owned Funds. Itis also necessary that disclosure is made ofthe amount ofthe outstanding...
... repos; Misc.—Maiden Lanes I, II, and III, credit to AIG, and other Fed assets. Liabilities: Other Reverse repos, Treasury cash holdings, and deposits with Federal Reserve Banksother than reserve ... increase in Treasury deposits with Federal Reserve banks (part ofOther ). Assets: Lending to nonbanks—TALF, CPFF, AMLF, and MMIFF; Short-term lending to financials—discount window, TAF, currency ... Federal Reserve Summary The balance sheet remained little changed, decreasing by $9 billion for the week ended September 15. Bank reserve balances decreased $118 billion, offset...
... expressed are those ofthe authors and do not necessarily reflect the position oftheFederalReserveBankofNewYork or theFederalReserve System. TheFederalReserveBankofNewYork provides ... necessarily reflect the position oftheFederalReserveBankofNewYork or theFederalReserve System.ã The total cost ofthe September 11 attack on the World Trade Center—comprising earnings losses, ... in NewYork City and New JerseySeasonally Adjusted LevelThousandsSources: NewYork State Department of Labor; New JerseyDepartment of Labor; FederalReserveBankofNew York. Note: The shading...
... NewYork City has been called " ;the greatest city in the world" numerous times by its own peopleand visitors to the city. NewYorkis civilization's greatest world within a city. ... classics. Two of thesemasterpieces of architecture are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum.Both continue the metaphor ofNewYork being a world within a world and possess the latentfusion ... latentfusion of form and function, one dependent on the other. The Metropolitan Museum isthe epitome of neo-Classical style while the Guggenheim is a modernist powerhouse. Each museum serves the same...
... used in the literature refers to the effect of un-expected changes in money growth rather than the effect of changes in the moneystock. Nonetheless, since the origin of this idea isthe interaction ... get bid up by the amount that the money supply increases regardless of the fraction of traders in the economy, becausethe quantity of the endowment is constant. The determination of nominal interest ... history in period t and earlier,ρ isthe agents’ subjective rate of time preference, and U′ is marginal utility. Then the left side of (9) isthe marginalutility ofthe goods that agents have to...