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When Are Central Bank Reserves Ample?
The Federal Reserve (Fed) implements monetary policy in a regime of ample reserves, whereby short-term interest rates are controlled mainly through the setting of administered rates. To do so, the quantity of reserves in the banking system needs to be large enough that everyday changes in reserves do not cause large variations in the policy rate, the so-called federal funds rate. As the Fed shrinks its balance sheet following the plan laid out by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) in 2022, how can it assess when to stop so that the supply of reserves remains ample? In the first post of ...
Speech
Monetary Policy Implementation in an Ample Reserves Regime
Remarks at the Fixed Income Analysts Society, Inc., Women in Fixed Income Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York City.
Speech
Reserve Management and the Fed’s System Open Market Account: Recent Experience and Insights from Surveys
Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2026 Financial Markets Conference, Fernandina Beach, Florida.
Report
Monetary Policy Implementation with an Ample Supply of Reserves
We offer a parsimonious model of the reserve demand to study the trade-offs associated with various monetary policy implementation frameworks. Our model considers a reserve demand function that encompasses banks' preferences for reserves in the post 2007-2009 financial crisis world and incorporates shocks to the demand for and the supply of reserves. We find that the best policy implementation outcomes are realized when reserves are somewhere in between scarce and abundant. This outcome is consistent with the Federal Open Market Committee's 2019 announcement to implement monetary policy in a ...
Discussion Paper
Dropping Like a Stone: ON RRP Take-up in the Second Half of 2023
Take-up at the Overnight Reverse Repo Facility (ON RRP) has halved over the past six months, declining by more than $1 trillion since June 2023. This steady decrease follows a rapid increase from close to zero in early 2021 to $2.2 trillion in December 2022, and a period of relatively stable balances during the first half of 2023. In this post, we interpret the recent drop in ON RRP take-up through the lens of the channels that we identify in our recent Staff Report as driving its initial increase.
Speech
Reflections on the Early Days of Reserve Management Purchases and the Maintenance of Ample Reserves
Remarks before the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York City.
Newsletter
The Fed’s Balance Sheet and Ample Reserves
Learn how the Federal Reserve uses its balance sheet in a sustainable ample-reserves regime.
Discussion Paper
Measuring the Ampleness of Reserves
Over the past fifteen years, reserves in the banking system have grown from tens of billions of dollars to several trillion dollars. This extraordinary rise poses a natural question: Are the rates paid in the market for reserves still sensitive to changes in the quantity of reserves when aggregate reserve holdings are so large? In today’s post, we answer this question by estimating the slope of the reserve demand curve from 2010 to 2022, when reserves ranged from $1 trillion to $4 trillion.
Speech
Current Issues in Monetary Policy Implementation
Remarks before the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York City.
Speech
Money Markets and the Federal Funds Rate: The Path Forward
Remarks at the MFA Outlook 2019, New York City.