IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fip/fednls/87315.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

What Can We Learn from the Timing of Interbank Payments?

Author

Listed:

Abstract

From 2008 to 2014 the Federal Reserve vastly increased the size of its balance sheet, mainly through its large-scale asset purchase programs (LSAPs). The resulting abundance of reserves affected the financial system in a number of ways, including by changing the intraday timing of interbank payments. In this post we show that (1) there appears to be a nonlinear relationship between the amount of reserves in the system and the timing of interbank payments, and (2) with the increase in reserves, smaller banks shifted their timing of payments more significantly than larger banks did. This result suggests that tracking the timing of payments sent by banks could provide an informative signal about the impact of the shrinking Federal Reserve balance sheet on the payments system.

Suggested Citation

  • Adam Copeland & Linsey Molloy & Anya Tarascina, 2019. "What Can We Learn from the Timing of Interbank Payments?," Liberty Street Economics 20190225, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fednls:87315
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/02/what-can-we-learn-from-the-timing-of-interbank-payments.html
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    intraday credit; balance sheet normalization; payments;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fip:fednls:87315. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Gabriella Bucciarelli (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbnyus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.