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The payment system benefits of high reserve balances

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  • Mcandrews, James
  • Kroeger, Alexander

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The policy measures since the financial crisis have greatly expanded the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, and have thus also raised the level of aggregate bank reserves. Over the same time period there has been a significant shift in the timing of payments over the Federal Reserve’s Fedwire Funds service toward earlier settlement. This paper documents this timing change and presents regression results that suggest that the increase in overall reserve balances explains the vast majority of this development. This paper also discusses the benefits of high aggregate reserve balances for the robustness of the payment system and its potential implications for policy going forward.

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  • Mcandrews, James & Kroeger, Alexander, 2016. "The payment system benefits of high reserve balances," Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 10(1), pages 72-83, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:jpss00:y:2016:v:10:i:1:p:72-83
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    1. Afonso, Gara & Duffie, Darrell & Rigon, Lorenzo & Shin, Hyun Song, 2022. "How Abundant Are Reserves? Evidence from the Wholesale Payment System," Research Papers 4062, Stanford University, Graduate School of Business.

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    Keywords

    Fedwire; reserves; settlement liquidity; risk; government policy; Federal Reserve;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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