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The Supply of Money-Like Assets
Remarks for American Economic Association Panel Session:
“The Balance Sheets of Central Banks and the Shortage of Safe Assets”
Philadelphia, PA

Simon Potter
January 6, 2018
The views presented here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System

Figure 1: Federal Reserve Assets
$ Billions

3,000

Treasuries

Agencies

MBS

Repos

Discount Window

TAF

Swaps

PDCF

AMLF

CPFF

TALF

Other

2,500

2,000

1,500

1,000

500

0
Jan 2008

Jul 2008

Jan 2009

Jul 2009

Jan 2010

Source: Federal Reserve Board data, accessed from the data file accompanying the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s 2011 Annual Report.

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Figure 2: Money Market Fund Assets by Fund Type
$ Billions

3,000

Government Funds (left scale)
Government Share of Total (right scale)

Prime Funds (left scale)

Percent

100
90

2,500

80
70

2,000

60
1,500

50
40

1,000

30
20

500

10
0
Jan 2015

0
Jul 2015

Jan 2016

Jul 2016

Jan 2017

Jul 2017

Source: Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Figure 3: Flows between Fund Types within
Fund Families around MMF Reform Implementation
300

Changes in Government Funds ($ Billions)

250

200

150

100

50

0

-50
0

50

100

150

200

250

300

Outflows from Prime Funds ($ Billions)
Note: Each dot represents outflows from prime funds versus changes (positive or negative) in government funds sponsored by the same fund family
from November 2015 to October 2016.
Source: Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Figure 4: Cumulative Bill Issuance and Bill/OIS Spread
$ Billions

Cumulative Net U.S. Treasury Bill Issuance (left scale)

3-Month T-Bill rate less OIS rate (right scale)

Basis Points

200

5

150

0

100
-5
50
-10
0
-15
-50
-20
-100
-25

-150
-200
Jan 2017

-30
Apr 2017

Jul 2017

Oct 2017

Sources: U.S. Treasury; Bloomberg L.P.

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Figure 5: Federal Reserve Liabilities

$ Billions
Date
August 01, 2007
December 27, 2017
Expected Average in 2025*

Reserve
Balances

Federal
Reserve
Notes

RRPs
(foreign official
sector)

RRPs
(private
sector)

Treasury
General
Account

17

777

32

0

5

2,176

1,569

239

148

186

600

2,200

200

100

300

*Based on median responses to the December 2017 Survey of Primary Dealers and Survey of Market Participants, conditional
on not moving to the zero low er bound before the end of 2025.
Sources: Federal Reserve Board; Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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