Monetary Policy Implementation with an Ample Supply of Reserves

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Gara Afonso

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Kyungmin Kim

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Antoine Martin

Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Research and Statistics

Ed Nosal

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Simon Potter

Peterson Institute for International Economics

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Date Written: January 2020

Abstract

Methods of monetary policy implementation continue to change. The level of reserve supply—scarce, abundant, or somewhere in between—has implications for the efficiency and effectiveness of an implementation regime. The money market events of September 2019 highlight the need for an analytical framework to better understand implementation regimes. We discuss major issues relevant to the choice of an implementation regime, using a parsimonious framework and drawing from the experience in the United States since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. We find that the optimal level of reserve supply likely lies somewhere between scarce and abundant reserves, thus highlighting the benefits of implementation with what could be called “ample” reserves. The Federal Reserve’s announcement in October 2019 that it would maintain a level of reserve supply greater than the one that prevailed in early September is consistent with the implications of our framework.

Keywords: federal funds market, monetary policy implementation, ample reserve supply

JEL Classification: E42, E58

Suggested Citation

Afonso, Gara and Kim, Kyungmin and Martin, Antoine and Nosal, Ed and Potter, Simon and Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam, Monetary Policy Implementation with an Ample Supply of Reserves (January 2020). FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2020-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3584737 or http://dx.doi.org/10.21033/wp-2020-02

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