Payment Instruments and Collateral in the Interbank Payment System

Hajime Tomura

No 36, UTokyo Price Project Working Paper Series from University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: This paper presents a three-period model to analyze the endoge- nous need for bank reserves in the presence of Treasury securities. The model highlights the fact that the interbank market is an over- the-counter market. It characterizes the large value payment system operated by the central bank as an implicit contract, and shows that the contract requires less liquidity than decentralized settlement of bank transfers. In this contract, bank reserves are the balances of liquid collateral pledged by banks. The optimal contract is equiva- lent to the floor system. A private clearing house must commit to a time-inconsistent policy to provide the contract.

Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2014-12
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