Chapter 16: Q.13 (page 437)
What are the disadvantages of using loans to financial institutions to prevent bank panics?
Short Answer
Providing loans to financial institutions creates a Moral hazard problem
Chapter 16: Q.13 (page 437)
What are the disadvantages of using loans to financial institutions to prevent bank panics?
Providing loans to financial institutions creates a Moral hazard problem
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Get started for freeUsing the supply and demand analysis of the market for reserves, indicate how the following situations would affect central bank interest rates and economies in general.
a. The central bank eliminates interest paid on excess reserve.
b. The central bank introduces special interest rates (lower than usual) for commercial banks and sets special auctions.
c. The central bank conducts an open market sale of certain securities.
d. The central bank sets negative interest rates on bank deposits.
e. The central bank increases reserve requirements.
What is the main rationale behind paying negative interest rates to banks for keeping their deposits at central banks in Sweden, Switzerland, and Japan? What could happen to these economies if banks decide to loan their excess reserves, but no good investment opportunities exist?
Open market operations are typically repurchase agreements. What does this tell you about the likely volume of defensive open market operations relative to the volume of dynamic open market operations?
Why are repurchase agreements used to conduct most short-term monetary policy operations, rather than the simple, outright purchase and sale of securities?
“The federal funds rate can never be below the interest rate paid on reserves.” Is this statement true, false, or uncertain? Explain your answer.
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