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The Money Supply and the Banking System. Outline: What counts as money? Measuring the money stock Financial intermediaries The typical bank balance sheet The fractional reserve system. Liquidity. An asset is considered liquid if it can be converted to cash quickly and with little cost.
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The Money Supply and theBanking System • Outline: • What counts as money? • Measuring the money stock • Financial intermediaries • The typical bank balance sheet • The fractional reserve system
Liquidity An asset is considered liquid if it can be converted to cash quickly and with little cost
The liquidity scale Oriental Rugs, Jewelry Home Equity LeastLiquid MostLiquid Farm Land SpecializedEquipment Money Bonds,Equities
What counts as money? Monetary AssetsJanuary 31, 2000 Savingsaccounts($1,737 billion) Small TimeDeposits($963 billion) Large TimeDeposits($716 billion) Money MarketMutualFunds ($873 billion) Checkable deposits($587 billion)+TravelersChecks($8 billion) Cash in circulation($521 billion) Most Liquid Least Liquid
M1includes • Currency in circulation • Traveler’s checks • Checkable deposits at commercial banks • Other checkable deposits (OCDs)1 1Includes NOW, ATS, credit union share draft accounts, and demand deposits
Components of M1, July 17, 2000 (in billions) OCDs means “other checkable deposits.” Source: Federal Reserve Bulletin
M2includes • M1 • Savings deposits • Small time deposits • Money market mutual funds (MMMFs)
Financial Intermediaries • We use this to term to describe businesses that specialize in brokering between depositors (savers) and borrowers. • Institutions that are permitted by law to hold checkable deposits include: • Savings and loan associations (S & L’s) • Mutual savings banks • Credit unions • Commercial banks
Fractional Reserve System Depository institutions are required by law to hold a minimum fraction of their deposit liabilities in a non-interest bearing account at the Federal Reserve Bank • Legislation • Federal Reserve Act of 1913 • DIDMCA of 1982
What are reserves? • Total reserves:Vault cash plus reserves on account at the Federal Reserve Bank (the “Fed”). • Required reserves: The minimum amount a reserves a bank must hold to comply with the legal reserve requirement. • Required reserve ratio:The minimum fraction of checking account balances (or deposit liabilities) that bank must hold as reserves.
Reserve Requirements in the U.S. Source: Federal Reserve Board