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Working Paper
Who uses electronic banking?
This study uses the 1995 Survey of Consumer Finances to examine households' use of technologies, including electronic means, to carry out transactions at a financial institution and to gain information for making saving and borrowing decisions. Household use of various technologies is correlated with household income, financial assets, age, and years of education. Results suggest that relatively new electronic technologies are used by relatively few households, and that household use of electronic sources of information for financial decisionmaking is barely off the ground.
Conference Paper
Bank securities powers: are there diversification gains?
Journal Article
Money and interest rates under a reserves operating target
This study examines the short-run dynamic relationships between nonborrowed reserves, the federal funds rate, and transaction accounts using daily data from 1979 through 1982. Separate models are estimated for each day of the week, and simulation experiments are performed. The results suggest that the funds rate responded quite rapidly to a change in nonborrowed reserves, but that the short-run nonborrowed reserves multiplier for transaction accounts was only about 18 percent of its theoretical maximum. In addition, the Federal Reserve appeared to accommodate about 65 percent of a permanent ...
Conference Paper
An analysis of risk-based deposit insurance for commercial banks
Discussion Paper
An analysis of the short-run money supply mechanism
Later edition, No. 89
Discussion Paper
Bank regulation and the efficiency of financial intermediation
Discussion Paper
An analysis of the behavior of mature black-owned commercial banks