Atlanta’s Bostic lays out case for central banking with ‘ample’ reserves

Floor system has performed well and comes with several benefits, says Atlanta Fed president

Raphael Bostic
Raphael Bostic
Center for American Progress

There is a strong case for the Federal Reserve to maintain “ample” reserves in the financial system and use a floor to set monetary policy, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Raphael Bostic.

And there is no reason to think a floor system would perform worse than a corridor system, and several reasons to think it might be better, the Fed president said at a conference in San Francisco.

Under a floor system, the central bank provides plenty of spare liquidity to the banking

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