Two Monetary Tools: Interest Rates and Haircuts

Two Monetary Tools: Interest Rates and Haircuts

Financial institutions play a key role as credit providers in the economy, and liquidity crises arise when they become credit constrained themselves. In such liquidity crises, financial institutions’ ability to borrow against their securities plays a key role, as Bagehot points out. In the private markets, it can become virtually impossible to borrow against certain illiquid securities, and, mo...

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Monetary Policy without Interest Rates

Many econometric studies use both a narrative approach and an interest rate series to investigate the e ects of US monetary policy. The two alternative measures provide very similar conclusions. This similarity in the results is not likely to be found when central banks use numerous instruments, including unconventional quantitative targets. This paper studies the French experience with tempora...

Monetary Policy and Long-term Interest Rates

This paper documents some new empirical results about the monetary policy and long-term interest rates in the United States. It shows that changes in the monetary policy stance are more predictable to the bond market in the 1990s than in the 1970s. This shift in the predictability of the monetary policy actions affects the policy’s impact on long-term interest rates as well as the forecasting p...

A zero-sum monetary system, interest rates, and implications

To the knowledge of the author, this is the first time it has been shown that interest rates that are extremely high by modern standards are necessary within a zero-sum monetary system. Extreme interest rates persisted for long periods of time in many places. Prior to the invention of banking, most money was hard-money in the form of some type of coin. Here a model is presented that examines th...