Payment Systems, Inside Money and Financial Intermediation
This paper assesses the impact of introducing an efficient payment system on the amount of credit provided by the banking system. Two channels are investigated. First, innovations in wholesale payments technology enhance the security and speed of d...
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Online Access: | http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20101013145659 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3927 |
Summary: | This paper assesses the impact of
introducing an efficient payment system on the amount of
credit provided by the banking system. Two channels are
investigated. First, innovations in wholesale payments
technology enhance the security and speed of deposits as a
payment medium for customers and therefore affect the split
between holdings of cash and the holdings of deposits that
can be intermediated by the banking system. Second,
innovations in wholesale payments technology help establish
well-functioning interbank markets for end-of-day funds,
which reduces the need for banks to hold excess reserves.
The authors examine these links empirically using payment
system reforms in Eastern European countries as a
laboratory. The analysis finds evidence that reforms led to
a shift away from cash in favor of demand deposits and that
this in turn enabled a prolonged credit expansion in the
sample countries. By contrast, while payment system
innovations also led to a reduction in excess reserves in
some countries, this effect was not causal for the credit
boom observed in these countries. |
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