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On the optimality of interest-bearing reserves in economies of overlapping generations (*)

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  • Scott Freeman

    (Department of Economics, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA)

  • Joseph H. Haslag

    (Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX 75201, USA, and Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, 75275, USA)

Abstract

Paying interest on required reserves is considered in an overlapping generations model in which the return to capital dominates the return to fiat money. As Smith (1991) showed, financing interest on reserves benefits the initial old at the expense of future generations. We show that the transfer of wealth associated with interest on reserves can be offset by an accommodating open market purchase, so that the payment of interest on reserves is a Pareto improvement. We also show that paying interest on reserves improves welfare even when financed by distorting taxes on capital.

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Economic Theory.

Volume (Year): 7 (1996)
Issue (Month): 3 ()
Pages: 557-565

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Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:7:y:1996:i:3:p:557-565

Note: Received: March 25, 1994; revised version July 28, 1994
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  1. Freeman, Scott, 1987. "Reserve requirements and optimal seigniorage," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(2), pages 307-314, March.
  2. Joseph H. Haslag & Scott E. Hein, 1989. "Reserve requirements, the monetary base, and economic activity," Economic and Financial Policy Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, issue Mar, pages 1-15.
  3. Sargent, Thomas & Wallace, Neil, 1985. "Interest on reserves," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 15(3), pages 279-290, May.
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  1. Mark G. Guzman, 2006. "The impact of paying interest on reserves in the presence of government deficit financing," Economics & Management Discussion Papers em-dp2006-39, Henley Business School, Reading University.
  2. Bhattacharya, Joydeep & Haslag, Joseph & Russell, Steven, 2005. "The role of money in two alternative models: When is the Friedman rule optimal, and why?," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(8), pages 1401-1433, November.
  3. Russell Cooper & Hubert Kempf & Dan Peled, 2010. "Insulation Impossible : Fiscal Spillovers in a Monetary Union," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 10045, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
  4. Brent Hueth & Maro Ibarburu & James Kliebenstein, 2005. "Business Organization and Coordination in Marketing Specialty Hogs: A Comparative Analysis of Two Firms from Iowa," Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications 05-wp415, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University.
  5. Marco Espinosa-Vega & Steven Russell, 1998. "A public finance analysis of multiple reserve requirements," Working Paper 98-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
  6. Jagjit S Chadha & Luisa Corrado & Jack Meaning, 2012. "Reserves, liquidity and money: an assessment of balance sheet policies," BIS Papers chapters, in: Bank for International Settlements (ed.), Are central bank balance sheets in Asia too large?, volume 66, pages 294-347 Bank for International Settlements.
  7. Fernandez, Esther, 2005. "Distorting taxes and interest on reserves," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 22(6), pages 975-1000, December.
  8. William Whitesell, 2006. "Monetary policy implementation without averaging or rate corridors," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2006-22, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
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  10. Evan F. Koenig, 1994. "Capacity utilization and the evolution of manufacturing output: a closer look at the "bounce-back effect."," Working Papers 94-02, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

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