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How the Fed Smoothed Quarter-End Volatility in the Fed Funds Market

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The federal funds market is an important source of short-term funding for U.S. banks. In this market, banks borrow reserves on an unsecured basis from other banks and from government-sponsored enterprises, typically overnight. Before the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve implemented monetary policy by targeting the overnight fed funds rate and then adjusting the supply of bank reserves every day to keep the rate close to the target. Before the crisis, reserves were generally in scarce supply, which periodically caused temporary spikes in the fed funds rate during times of high demand, typically at the end of each quarter. In this post, we show that the Fed actively responded to quarter-end volatility by injecting reserves into the banking system around these dates.

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  • Alex Entz & John McGowan & Asani Sarkar, 2016. "How the Fed Smoothed Quarter-End Volatility in the Fed Funds Market," Liberty Street Economics 20160328, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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    fed funds market; quarter-end volatility;

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    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets

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