The Liquidity and Liquidity Distribution Effects in Emerging Markets: The Case of Jordan
October 1, 2009
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Summary
This paper analyzes the determinants of daily changes in Jordan's interbank market overnight rate. It not only quantifies the classic liquidity effect, but also uncovers a liquidity distribution effect on both sides of the market, and shows that their magnitude is a decreasing and convex function of the level of excess reserves. It finds that the volatility of rate changes depends much more on the reserve surplus accumulated within a maintenance period than on the level of excess reserves. As Carpenter and Demiralp (2006), it uses the series of the central bank's daily forecast errors to identify the liquidity effect.
Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Excess liquidity, Liquidity, Open market operations
Keywords: excess reserves, liquidity effect, overnight rate, WP
Pages:
25
Volume:
2009
DOI:
Issue:
228
Series:
Working Paper No. 2009/228
Stock No:
WPIEA2009228
ISBN:
9781451873757
ISSN:
1018-5941
