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The interbank money market is founded for funds trading and strengthening the monetary credit among financial institutions. On measuring the tightness and ease of short-term funds, the overnight interbank money market interest rate is viewed as the price. This study focuses on Taiwan overnight interbank money market interest rate by verifying the influential factors and examining its function as a short-term interest rate indicator. All results are described as follows: 1.In the volatility: (1)While the reserves is calculated for periods of ten days, the daily volatility of rate has significant difference each day. But the result is not obvious when the calculation period is one month. This indicates that the volatility of interbank money market interest rate can be decrease by prolonging the reserves calculation period. (2)Net excess reserves of current period and the previous overnight interbank money market interest rates are the primary factors of volatility. Closely relationship among trading value of interbank money market, net excess reserves and accumulated excess reserves is proved in this study. It manifests that financial institutions are used to adjust the reserves in interbank money market. 2.In the function of indicator: (1)There exists a feedback relationship between the overnight interbank money market interest rate and the commercial paper rate; but the repurchase rate lags behind each rate above. (2)The spreads between the overnight interbank money market interest rate and commercial paper rate are smaller when the former rate is at higher level.
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