A note on reserve requirements and banks' liquidity

Bitar, Joseph

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1002/ijfe.2403

Title :

A note on reserve requirements and banks' liquidity

Author(s) :

Bitar, Joseph [Auteur]
Lille économie management - UMR 9221 [LEM]

Journal title :

International Journal of Finance and Economics

Publisher :

Wiley

Publication date :

2020-12-28

ISSN :

1076-9307

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Economies et finances

English abstract : [en]

Unlike past literature adopting the loanable funds view, we follow the financing model of bank intermediation in order to analyse the monetary mechanisms relating to reserve requirements and compute banks' margins on their ...
Show more >Unlike past literature adopting the loanable funds view, we follow the financing model of bank intermediation in order to analyse the monetary mechanisms relating to reserve requirements and compute banks' margins on their lending and deposit activities. We show that, when remunerated at a rate below the money market interest rate, reserve requirements increase the spread between bank loans and deposits interest rates, without any impact on the level of interest rates. We review and analyse the uses of reserve requirements as a prudential tool and as a monetary policy instrument. We also analyse their use for capital flows management and for de‐dollarization in emerging economies. We argue that reserve requirements are a sub‐optimal and outdated policy tool, and we suggest imposing direct taxes on banks' deposits and loans interest payments, as a more efficient alternative to reserve requirements.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

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