👋 New here? This is one of many YSI projects happening around the world, all year round. All projects are hosted by members of the YSI community. They provide an opportunity to advance your knowledge, and build research collaborations around a pressing economic issue.
- This project has passed.
Discussion — Lecture 7: Repos, Postponing Settlement
Perry Mehrling's Money and Banking MOOC
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
YSI Presenters
Description
This session covers Lecture 7: Repos, Postponing Settlement
Repurchase agreements (repos or RP) are a form of market-based collateralized lending that can be used for interbank lending much like the Fed Funds market. Borrowers give securities as collateral to borrow money.
A key difference between Fed Funds and repo markets is that anyone who can put up the collateral can borrow in the repo markets. This is unlike the Fed Funds market, where only institutions with accounts at the Fed (e.g. American commercial banks) are allowed to participate.
Something to keep in mind with the repo market is that a flow of money always has a corresponding flow of collateral. If the securities used as collateral lose their value, then that impedes the flow of money through the market. Firms become less able to borrow and less able to roll over their funding independent of anything to do with their own creditworthiness. The Fed Funds market doesn't have this problem.
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Organizers
Attendees
Alex Howlett
Jim Bramlett
Marta Mizsak
Christopher Pomwene Shafuda
Huining Chen
Christopher Clacio
Chris Rimmer
Philip Jackson
Not the right project for you?
Take a look at the below.
They are open for applications.
250 Years of the Wealth of Nations: New Perspectives on Adam Smith’s Political Economy
Contours Of Conflict in Africa: Economics and the Contradictions of Liberation in Southern and Central Africa
Be the first to know:
Subscribe to the YSI newsletter to find out when new projects go live.
