Search: foreign-currency liquidity
RBA Glossary definition for foreign-currency liquidity
foreign-currency liquidity – The capacity to exchange foreign currency for domestic currency without significantly moving the exchange rate. The extent to which a foreign currency may be traded readily without causing a significant movement in price.
RBA Glossary definition for liquidity
liquidity – The capacity to sell an asset quickly without significantly affecting the price of that asset. Liquidity is also sometimes used to refer to assets that are highly liquid.
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What the Campbell Committee Expected | Conference – 1991
21 Jun 1991
Conferences
It provides liquidity and enables investors to obtain reasonable interest returns on cash holdings. ... Also, it is possible that foreign banks may have speeded up the introduction of financial innovations.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1991/valentine.html
Property Prices and Bank Risk-taking | Conference – 2012
20 Aug 2012
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In several eastern European countries, real estate booms were funded by credit booms associated with a rapid growth of foreign currency loans (Figure 3). ... Borrowers without foreign currency income would not be able to repay their mortgages in case of
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2012/dellariccia.html
Risk and the Transformation of the Australian Financial System | Conference – 2007
20 Aug 2007
Conferences
billion. After accounting for banks' foreign currency equity positions, banks had a small net foreign currency asset position. ... Net foreign currency position on debt. 117. 186. Derivative positions to hedge debt.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2007/ryan-thompson.html
Three Perspectives on an Australasian Monetary Union | Conference – 2001
24 Jul 2001
Conferences
Secondly, an issue discussed in Section 3, agents may have to pay an interest rate premium in order to issue local-currency debt to foreign lenders. ... Queensland's trade with the rest of Australia totals $35 billion per year; if Queensland had a
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2001/coleman.html
From the Asian Miracle to an Asian Century? Economic Transformation in the 2000s and Prospects for the 2010s | Conference – 2011
24 Jul 2000
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gradual appreciation of the currency; balance of the external accounts; and slower accumulation of foreign reserves. ... External surpluses grew larger in the following years and foreign currency reserves surged.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2011/huang-wang.html
Wrap-up Discussion | Conference – 2008
14 Jul 2008
Conferences
At one extreme would be an approach that offered banks unlimited liquidity support on demand. ... The 1990s brought the Asian crisis, which was associated with fixed exchange rates and the assumption that domestic financial systems could borrow in
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2008/wrap-up-disc-2008.html
Alternative Models of Financial System Development | Conference – 1996
9 Jul 1996
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Germany. The relative importance of corporate securities markets across industrialised countries differs dramatically, both in terms of size and liquidity. ... Issuance of foreign currency bonds prohibited until 1990. Equity. Heavy taxes on transactions
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1996/prowse.html
Capital Flows and Exchange Rates | Conference – 1999
9 Aug 1999
Conferences
Higher domestic-currency interest rates provided no encouragement for the foreign-currency-denominated flows to stay. ... If a floating rate had prompted borrowers to worry about depreciation, this would have discouraged them from foreign-currency
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1999/grenville-gruen.html
The Debate on Alternatives for Monetary Policy in Australia | Conference – 1997
21 Jul 1997
Conferences
In effect, the monetary system is anchored to that of the base currency, but without access to discretionary liquidity support from that source. ... of devaluation triggered attempts to liquidate bank deposits and government securities in order to obtain
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/1997/edey.html
National Saving: Trends and Policy | Conference – 2000
24 Jul 2000
Conferences
As pointed out by O'Mara and Walshaw (1992), there is also, for a country with a net foreign debt, an inflation transfer from the foreign to the domestic sectors, and ... This is likely to have reflected both the growth of coverage and the increasing
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2000/edey-gower.html