The Cost of Reserves

The cost of holding reserves is often estimated as the sovereign spread over the risk-free return on reserves paid on the debt issued to purchase them, which ignores the benign effect of reserves on the spread. This paper illustrates this numerically, showing that these costs, as typically measured,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Levy Yeyati, Eduardo
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4681