| Sumario: | This study considers the market for Euro-dollar deposits as a structural system with determinate demand and supply relationships. It is important at the outset to distinguish the stock demand for Euro-dollar deposits, which the authors investigate in the article, from the flow demand for Euro-dollar credit. F. Machlup (1970) points out that the demand for Euro-dollar credit is a demand for a flow of funds to borrowers who, in turn, plan to pay out the funds they have borrowed. The demand for Euro-dollar deposit balances is, on the other hand, a demand for money, or near-money, to hold. The authors concentrate upon the factors affecting the demand for a stock of Euro-dollar deposits to hold. The authors also identify an equation to determine the stock of Euro-dollar balances supplied by Euro-dollar issuing institutions (hereafter Euro-banks). This will be based on an identifiable stock of reserves held by Euro-banks. The results suggest that about 40 per cent of the growth of Euro-dollar deposits in the 1964-ITT-1970-TV period were due to the multiple deposit expansion process.
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