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RBA Glossary definition for Cash Rate
Cash Rate – The interest rate which banks pay to borrow funds from other banks in the money market on an overnight basis. The cash rate is the Reserve Bank of Australia's operational target for the implementation of monetary policy. It is also an important financial benchmark in the Australian financial markets. It is used as the reference rate for Australian dollar Overnight Indexed Swaps (OIS) and the ASX 30 Day Interbank Cash Rate Futures. The Reserve Bank of Australia is the administrator of the cash rate. The cash rate is calculated as the weighted average interest rate on overnight unsecured loans between banks settled in the Reserve Bank Information and Transfer System (RITS). The Cash Rate is also known by the acronym AONIA in financial markets.
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The Australian Economic 'Miracle': A View from the North
24 Nov 2006
Conferences
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RBA Conference Volume 2000
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Australian Money Market Divergence: Arbitrage Opportunity or Illusion?
1 Sep 2019
RDP
2019-09
Note: (a) Discounted variable rates on owner-occupier housing loans; spread to cash rate. ... Subsequently in 2019, net returns in all these money markets declined as the spread between money market rates and cash rate expectations narrowed.
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The Impact of Interest Rates on Bank Profitability: A Retrospective Assessment Using New Cross-country Bank-level Data
21 Jun 2023
RDP
2023-05
Starting with the impact on banks' interest margins, several studies identify a nonlinear relationship between interest rates and NIMs, with the marginal impact of a cut to the cash rate larger ... In fact, for France, Norway and Poland a further
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The Cash Market in Australia
31 Jan 2006
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The weighted average of these two rates is called the official cash rate. ... In practice, it is the unofficial cash rate which is targeted by the Bank (though, as explained later, the unofficial and official cash rates are about equal).
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/1992/pdf/rdp9214.pdf
The Rise in Household Liquidity
24 Nov 2021
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Midrigan forthcoming). The higher rate of saving has occurred through both amortising mortgage. ... projection methods to demonstrate that lower interest rates are associated with higher household.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2021/pdf/rdp2021-10.pdf
How Australians Pay: Evidence from the 2016 Consumer Payments Survey
1 Jul 2017
RDP
2017-04
amount, source) and the amount of cash they held after the top-up. ... Similarly, higher-income consumers have switched away from cash towards cards at a faster rate than respondents with lower incomes in recent years.
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A Model of the Australian Housing Market
1 Mar 2019
RDP
2019-01
The model suggests that much of the strength in housing prices and construction over the past few years can be explained by the fall in interest rates – some of this fall ... So long-term interest rates enter the user cost. However, housing prices seem
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Small Business Conditions and Finance
23 Sep 2015
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RBA Conference Volume 2015
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Macroprudential Limits on Mortgage Products: The Australian Experience
4 Aug 2021
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quarter t , minus the cash rate, in percentage points. It is first differenced in most regressions. ... controls, given that the cash rate is a very strong determinant of mortgage rates.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/rdp/2021/pdf/rdp2021-07.pdf
Bank of England Staff Working Paper No. 827
20 Sep 2019
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Employment and the collateral channel of monetary policy
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/workshops/research/2019/pdf/rba-workshop-2019-foulis.pdf