What is the Sterilisation of an asset?

What is the Sterilisation of an asset?

Sterilization is a form of monetary action in which a central bank seeks to limit the effect of inflows and outflows of capital on the money supply. Sterilization most frequently involves the purchase or sale of financial assets by a central bank and is designed to offset the effect of foreign exchange intervention.

What is OMT in economics?

Outright Monetary Transactions (“OMT”) is a program of the European Central Bank under which the bank makes purchases (“outright transactions”) in secondary, sovereign bond markets, under certain conditions, of bonds issued by Eurozone member-states.

What is ECB OMT?

Designed at the height of the euro zone’s debt crisis, the Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) scheme would allow the ECB to make unlimited purchases of a particular country’s debt.

How does RBI sterilize?

The main instrument of sterilisation used by the Reserve Bank is Open Market Operations (OMO). The Reserve Bank has conducted OMO for absorbing excess liquidity in the system through outright sale of securities.

Which of the following is an example of monetary transaction?

A monetary transaction can be loosely defined as one where someone makes or receives a payment and includes deposits, withdrawals, and exchanges. Specific examples of monetary transactions include electronic funds transfers, checks, money orders, gift cards, and bartering.

What is ECB Pspp?

On 22 January 2015, the ECB unveiled the public sector purchase programme ( PSPP ), which consists of the purchase of bonds issued by euro-area governments, agencies and European institutions. On 3 December 2015, the ECB Governing Council decided to extend this to include regional and local government bonds.

What is sterilization in Indian economy?

Sterilisation in the context of monetary policy refers to the activity of the RBI of taking away the excess money supply created due to its foreign exchange market intervention. Withdrawing this excess money supply is necessary to stop inflation. This process of excess money supply withdrawal is called sterilisation.

What are methods of sterilization?

Sterilization can be achieved by a combination of heat, chemicals, irradiation, high pressure and filtration like steam under pressure, dry heat, ultraviolet radiation, gas vapor sterilants, chlorine dioxide gas etc.