23.7 How might bank behavior lead to causation running from output to the money supply? What does this say about Friedman and Schwartz’s evidence that there is a strong correlation between money and output? • What other arguments can you make that challenge the monetarist assertion that monetary mischief leads to output fluctuations? • What independent evidence supports the monetarist position? 23.11 In the 1973-1975 recession, the value of common stocks in real terms fell nearly 50%. How might this decline in the stock market have affected aggregate demand and thus contributed to the severity of this recession? 23.14 The Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani found that the most important transmission mechanisms of monetary policy involve consumer expenditure. Describe how these work. •Monetary policy and the Tobin q. Discuss. •Financial stability and a Tobin tax. Discuss. •Capital requirements, progress and stability. Discuss.
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23.7 How might bank behavior lead to causation running from output to the money supply? What does this say about Friedman and Schwartz’s evidence that there is a strong correlation between money and output? •What other arguments can you make that challenge the monetarist assertion that monetary mischief leads to output fluctuations?•What independent evidence supports the monetarist position? 23.11 In the 1973-1975 recession, the value of common stocks in real terms fell nearly 50%. How might this decline in the stock market have affected aggregate demand and thus contributed to the severity of this recession? 23.14 The Nobel laureate Franco Modigliani found that the most important transmission mechanisms of monetary policy involve consumer expenditure. Describe how these work. •Monetary policy and the Tobin q. Discuss. •Financial stability and a Tobin tax. Discuss. •Capital requirements, progress and stability. Discuss.
The stance of monetary policy: what really matters?
Monetary Policy Strategies:Advantages and Disadvantages
Inflation Rates and Inflation Targets for New Zealand, Canada, and the United Kingdom, 1980–2008
Source: Ben S. Bernanke, Thomas Laubach, Frederic S. Mishkin, and Adam S. Poson, Inflation Targeting: Lessons from the International Experience (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), updates from the same sources, and www.rbnz.govt .nz/statistics/econind/a3/ha3.xls.
Tools, Policy Instruments, Intermediate Targets and Goals of Monetary Policy
Criteria for Choosing the Policy Instrument
• Ease of observing and measuring• Ability to control• Predictable effect on Goals
Market for Reserves
Target Nonborrowed Reserves:FFRATE varies as reserve demand shifts
Target Federal Funds Rate:Must vary NBRs to accommodateshifts in reserve demand
Taylor Rule for Federal Funds Rate:1970–2008Target fed funds rate = 2% + π + ½ (π – π*) + ½ ((Y-Yfe)/Yfe)
Source: Federal Reserve: www.federalreserve.gov/releases and author’s calculations.
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Arthur F. Burns
Paul Volcker
Wm.Miller
A l a n G r e e n s p a n
BenBernanke
Tools of Monetary Policy
• Open market operations• Discount rate borrowed reserves
– LENDER OF LAST RESORT• Reserve requirements
– Affect the money multiplier…don’t touch/don’t matter• Federal funds rate—the interest rate on overnight loans of
reserves from one bank to another» Primary indicator of the stance of monetary policy
Determined by Supply and Demand for reserves• FOMC Balance of Risks Statement
Public’s expectations of Fed’s intent Behavior supportive of Fed’s intent
The Money Supply Model
• Money = Currency plus checkable deposits: M1
M = C + D• The monetary base (MB)—the assets of the central bank— “backs” the
money supply
• The CB’s assets = MB =The CB’s liabilities = C + R
MB = MBn + BR
• The money supply (M) is a multiple m of the monetary baseM = m x MB = m x (MBn + BR)
m = ( 1 + c ) / ( c + r + e ) = 1 + ( 1 – r – e ) / ( c + r + e )
The Functions of a Modern Central BankGovernment's Bank: • Manages government transactions.• Controls availability of money and credit.Banker’s Bank:
Lender of last resort in crisesOperates clearing system for interbank payments.Oversees financial intermediaries
Functions of Federal Reserve District Banks• Clear checks
• Issue new currency/withdraw damaged currency
• Make discount loans to banks in district
• Evaluate mergers/expansions of bank activities
• Liaison between business community and the Fed
• Examine bank holding companies and state-chartered member banks
• Collect data on local business conditions
• Research Money, Banking and the Financial System
Asymmetric Information and Bank Regulation(OCC, FDIC, Fed, OTS)Government safety net• Deposit insurance/FDIC: Short circuits bank failures and contagion effect
• Payoff method/Purchase and assumption method
• Fed as lender of last resort: Too BIG to Fail• Financial consolidation Exacerbates Too Big to Fail• Safety net extended to non-bank financial institutions
Safety Net Moral Hazard Problems by Depositors and BanksSafety Net Adverse Selection Problems: Risk-loving bankers
Attempted solutions: Constrain banks from taking too much risk• Promote diversification• Prohibit holdings of common stock• Set capital requirements … Capital as cushion
Prompt corrective action: Close ‘em down when capital inadequate• Monitor … CAMELS: Capital adequacy/Asset quality/Mgt/Earnings/Liquidity/
Sensitivity to market risk• Disclosure requirements … mark-to-market issue• Restrictions on competition … make banking boring
• Resolution authority– FDIC model … insurance premiums based on systemic risk?
• Consumer financial protection agencyCan the Fed do it? Has the Fed done it????
Other ideas in the air• Central clearinghouse for ALL derivatives• “Consumer protection” for sophisticated financial products• Deferred compensation / “clawbacks”• Toughened/countercyclical capital requirements• Tobin tax sand in the well-greased gears of speculation
Financing business: Adverse selection & moral hazard Eight Facts
1. Stocks are not most important source of external financing
2. Issuing marketable securities (debt and equity) not the main way businesses finance operations
3. Indirect finance is much more important than direct finance
4. Financial intermediaries the most important source of external funds
5. The financial system is heavily regulated
6. Only large, well-established corporations have (had) easy access to securities markets to finance their activities
need reputation and net worth
7. Debt contracts: trust … but collateral
8. Debt contracts: trust … but restrictive covenants
Long-Term Bond Yields, 1919–2008
Sources: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Banking and Monetary Statistics, 1941–1970; Federal Reserve: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/data.htm.
Movements over Time of Interest Rates on U.S. Government Bonds with Different Maturities
Sources: Federal Reserve: www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/data.htm.
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Expectations Theory of Term StructureBuy a two-year bond yielding i2t or buy a one year bond yielding i1t and turn it over next year at expected yield ie
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P = price of coupon bond
C = yearly coupon payment
F = face value of the bond
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The same cash flow payment every period throughout
the life of the loan
LV = loan value
FP = fixed yearly payment
= number of years until maturity
FP FP FP FPLV = . . . +
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Present Values and Interest Rates: i PV
Price of a coupon bond summation of “discount bonds”