Treasury Bills and/Or Central Bank Bills for Absorbing Surplus Liquidity: The Main Considerations

January 1, 2012

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Obert Nyawata. Treasury Bills and/Or Central Bank Bills for Absorbing Surplus Liquidity: The Main Considerations, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed December 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper discusses the challenging question of whether central banks should use treasury bills or central bank bills for draining excess liquidity in the banking system. While recognizing that there are practical reasons for using central bank bills, the paper argues that treasury bills are the first best option especially because positive externalities for the financial sector and the rest of the economy. However, the main considerations in the choice should be: (i) operational independence for the central bank; (ii) market development; and (iii) the strengthening of the transmission of monetary policy impulses.

Subject: Banking, Central bank bills, Central banks, Financial institutions, Government debt management, Government securities, Public financial management (PFM), Securities, Treasury bills and bonds

Keywords: Africa, Central bank bank bill, Central bank bills, Central bank loss, Central bank securities, Consolidated public sector, Fixed income, Global, Government debt management, Government securities, Government securities, Interest rate, Liquidity management, Market fragmentation, Market liquidity, Monetary management, Monetary policy, Money market, Public finance, Securities, T-bill market, Treasury bills and bonds, WP, Yield curve

Publication Details

Pages:

39
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2012/040
Stock No:

WPIEA2012040
ISBN:

9781463933838
ISSN:

1018-5941

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