Floor systems and the Friedman rule: The fiscal arithmetic of open market operations

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In a floor system of monetary policy implementation, the central bank remunerates bank reserves at or near the market rate of interest. Some observers have expressed concern that operating such a system will have adverse fiscal consequences for the public sector and may even require the government to subsidize the central bank. We show that this is not the case. Using the monetary general equilibrium model of Berentsen et al. (2014), we show how a central bank that supplies reserves through open market operations can always generate non-negative net income, even when using a floor system to implement the Friedman rule.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Staff Report ; No. 754

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems ; Monetary Policy ; Central Banks and Their Policies
• Subject: monetary policy implementation ; central bank operations ; interest on reserves

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Keister, Todd ; Martin, Antoine ; McAndrews, James
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• (where): New York, NY
• (when): 2015

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/130637
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET