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RBA Glossary definition for cash rate target

cash rate target – As in most developed countries, the stance of monetary policy in Australia is expressed in terms of a target for an overnight interest rate. The rate used by the Reserve Bank of Australia is the cash rate (also known as the interbank overnight rate). When the Reserve Bank Board decides that a change in monetary policy should occur, it specifies a new target for the cash rate. A decision to ease policy is reflected in a new lower target for the cash rate, while a decision to tighten policy is reflected in a higher target.

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 Evolution of Consumer Payments in Australia: Results from the 2022 Consumer Payments Survey

27 Nov 2023 RDP 2023-08
Tanya Livermore, Jack Mulqueeney, Thuong Nguyen and Benjamin Watson
services. Figure 5: Trends in Card and Cash Payments. Share of number of payments. ... top-up source, compared to about 70 per cent for low cash users.
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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
Callan Windsor, Terhi Jokipii and Matthieu Bussiere
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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Documenting Shock Measures during the COVID-19 Pandemic

12 May 2023 RDP 2023-04
Jonathan Hambur and Qazi Haque
The cash rate was reduced to around the effective lower bound, and various unconventional policies were introduced, including a yield curve target and a bond purchase program. ... that the cash rate would be kept low for a period, particularly the
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The Effect of Credit Constraints on Housing Prices: (Further) Evidence from a Survey Experiment

31 Jan 2023 RDP 2023-01
Tom Cusbert
Figure 3: Effect of Lower Rates on Housing Demand. Mortgage rate lowered from 6.5 per cent to 4.5 per cent. ... The response of WTP to a change in interest rate is little changed across the spectrum of subjective discount rates.
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Robustness Exercises

3 Jan 2023 RDP 2022-09
Matthew Read
Although the robust credible intervals are narrower in the inflation-targeting period (compare Figures 6 and 9), this seems to largely reflect that the impact response of the cash rate is ... t. is restricted to be non-negative, so the central bank does
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The Consequences of Low Interest Rates for the Australian Banking Sector

21 Dec 2022 RDP 2022-08
Anthony Brassil
While the cash rate target has remained above zero in Australia, the RBA implemented several unconventional policies designed to stimulate the economy. ... Central bank deposits in Australia are remunerated at a rate that moves with the cash rate target.
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The Term Funding Facility: Has It Encouraged Business Lending?

13 Dec 2022 RDP 2022-07
Sharon Lai, Kevin Lane and Laura Nunn
On 19 March 2020, the RBA introduced a range of measures to lower funding costs and encourage the provision of credit, thereby supporting economic activity: a reduction in the cash rate ... In November 2020, the cost of new funding under the TFF was
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The Yield and Market Function Effects of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Bond Purchases

24 May 2022 RDP 2022-02
Richard Finlay, Dmitry Titkov and Michelle Xiang
same time announced a reduction in the cash rate target from 50 basis points to 25 basis points. ... although the observed effect is confounded with the reduction in the cash rate target, announced at the same time (Figure 4).
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BA-MARTIN in Detail

18 Jan 2022 RDP 2022-01
Anthony Brassil, Mike Major and Peter Rickards
cash rate and banks' cost of funding increases as the cash rate falls. ... By cash rate level. The lending spreads banks charge above their costs of debt funding have historically been unrelated to the level of interest rates (see Graph 13 in Garner and
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Is the Phillips Curve Still a Curve? Evidence from the Regions

31 Aug 2021 RDP 2021-09
James Bishop and Emma Greenland
These findings have important implications for policy. According to the RBA Board (RBA 2021a), the cash rate will not be raised until inflation is sustainably within the 2 to 3 per ... For example, in response to a persistent negative supply shock a
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