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Monetary Policy Instruments — lesson overview
Policy objectives and transmission
Monetary policy influences financial conditions through instruments and expectations, operating with economic and institutional constraints.
A change in a central-bank policy rate can affect market rates, borrowing, saving and demand, but transmission is not instantaneous or identical for every borrower.
Policy objectives and the legal framework must be distinguished from the numerical policy settings prevailing on a particular date.
Common instruments
A repo transaction combines a securities sale with an agreement to repurchase under specified terms; central-bank repo operations can provide liquidity.
Cash Reserve Ratio concerns prescribed cash balances banks maintain with the RBI under the applicable framework; Statutory Liquidity Ratio concerns specified liquid assets.
Open-market operations involve purchases or sales of securities affecting liquidity; they are not the same mechanism as changing every bank’s lending rate directly.
Interpreting policy changes
Liquidity absorption and liquidity injection are opposite operational effects; identify the instrument, transaction direction and conditions.
Standing facilities and corridor arrangements are part of the operating framework and can change over time; use current RBI releases for their settings.
A policy response should be analysed with inflation, output, expectations and financial conditions, not a rule that every rate change has one guaranteed immediate result.
