LLPDLN pertemuan 3
Bank uses liquid assets in the form of deposit to finance illiquid investments of borrowers.
Banks cannot lend all of its assets: it has to store a small fraction in their own vault or in the central bank.
In Indonesia, bank needs to have a reserve equals to 3.5% of its total loan.
In normal times, people usually don’t do anything with their saving account.
This way, banks can lend most of the money and reserve some for liquidity.
But if many lenders suddenly would like to withdraw money, bank would not have enough money.
When many people wants to withdraw money at the same time, we call it bank run.
Bank runs happen when borrowers hear Bank is near collapsing.
However, just a rumour could create a real collapse if lenders decided to withdraw money together at the same time.
This can be contagious: a lost of faith in one bank could lead to lost of faith to the entire system.
Deposit insurance. Indonesian depositors is insured (partially) by Lembaga Penjamin Simpanan (LPS)
Capital requirements. Bank is required to have a minimum capital or asset to be able to operate in Indonesia.
Reserve requirements. Currently is 3.5% but it used to be higher. It was lowered due to COVID-19 recession.
Discount window, where the central bank can lend money to private banks so they don’t have to sell their asset.
Bank control how much money circulated in the market by moving deposits between loanable funds and its reserves
Suppose Naufal has a Rp1 million in his pocket. He decided to deposit it to Bank BeCAk.
But then Daffa come to Bank BeCAk to borrow Rp900k to buy shoes.
Bank BeCAk use its reserve it get from Naufal:
This leads to increased Rp900k in money supply: now there are Rp1.900k of money supply in the market!
Suppose Daffa buy the shoes from Tiara.
Tiara then deposit the money to another bank named Bank Madara.
But like Bank BeCAk, Bank Madara can loan some of the fund and reducing its reserve!
The more money is circulated, the more expansionary the monetary condition is.