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Interest on Reserves: Implications for Banking and Policymaking

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This policy brief evaluates the banking and policy implications of 2006 Congressional legislation authorizing the Federal Reserve to pay interest on reserves held at Federal Reserve banks beginning in October 2011. This upcoming policy change has received remarkably little attention from the financial media, yet it promises to have effects along several dimensions. Likely to be impacted are total reserves held by depository institutions, the interest sensitivities of these institutions’ asset holdings, balances in sweep accounts managed by depository institutions, and depository institutions intraday overdrafts of their reserve accounts at Federal Reserve banks. In addition, the authorization to pay interest on reserves broadens the set of tools of monetary policy available to the Fed. Finally, this policy change strengthens the case for significant reductions in, or possibly elimination of, reserve requirements on U.S. depository institutions.

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  • David VanHoose, 2008. "Interest on Reserves: Implications for Banking and Policymaking," NFI Policy Briefs 2008-PB-05, Indiana State University, Scott College of Business, Networks Financial Institute.
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    1. Scott Freeman & Joseph H. Haslag, 1995. "Should bank reserves earn interest?," Economic and Financial Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, issue Q IV, pages 25-33.
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    2. Dutkowsky, Donald H. & VanHoose, David D., 2011. "Interest on bank reserves and optimal sweeping," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 35(9), pages 2491-2497, September.
    3. Dutkowsky, Donald H. & VanHoose, David D., 2013. "Interest on reserves, unregulated interest on demand deposits, and optimal sweeping," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 38(PB), pages 192-202.

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    Keywords

    Interest on reserves; intraday overdrafts; sweep accounts;
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    JEL classification:

    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • E51 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers

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