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More Than Meets the Eye: Some Fiscal Implications of Monetary Policy

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In 2012, the Fed’s remittances to the U.S. Treasury amounted to $88.4 billion. The vast majority of these remittances originated as income from the SOMA portfolio (see the second post in this series for an account of the history of SOMA income). While net income has been high in recent years because of the Fed’s large balance sheet, it is likely to drop in the future as the Fed normalizes interest rates. This is because the Fed will likely face increased interest expense on its reserve balances and possibly realize losses in the case of asset sales. A recent paper by economists at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Carpenter et al.) shows that under some scenarios the Fed may be forced to decrease its remittances to zero for a few years (see also the related work by Hall and Reis and by Greenlaw, Hamilton, Hooper, and Mishkin). The fact that remittances may vary more over the next few years than they have in the past has highlighted the fact that monetary policy has fiscal implications.

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  • Marco Del Negro & James J. McAndrews & Julie Remache, 2013. "More Than Meets the Eye: Some Fiscal Implications of Monetary Policy," Liberty Street Economics 20130815, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fednls:86887
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    monetary policy; fiscal policy;

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