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3 posts on "federal funds"
May 6, 2019

Selected Deposits and the OBFR

Alyssa Cambron, Marco Cipriani, Joshua Jones, Romen Mookerjee, Scott Sherman, Brett Solimine, and Timothy Wessel

In this Liberty Street Economics post, Cipriani and coauthors discuss changes in the calculation of the Overnight Bank Funding Rate (OBFR), the reason for including selected deposits, and the likely impact of the change on the OBFR’s published value.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Central Bank, Fed Funds, Federal Reserve, Monetary Policy | Permalink
December 21, 2015

The Effect of Fed Funds Rate Hikes on Consumer Borrowing Costs

Nina Boyarchenko, Sooji Kim, and Matthew Plosser

Nina Boyarchenko, Sooji Kim, and Matthew Plosser The target federal funds rate has hovered around zero for nearly a decade, and observers are questioning what effect an increase could have on both the financial markets and the real economy. In this post, we examine the historical reaction of loan rates to target rate increases. Specifically, […]

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Posted at 7:00 am in Fed Funds, Household Finance, Monetary Policy | Permalink
December 9, 2013

Who’s Borrowing in the Fed Funds Market?

The federal funds market plays an important role in the implementation of monetary policy.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Fed Funds, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, Monetary Policy | Permalink | Comments (2)

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