Setting Rates on Deposit Accounts

Savings and loan institutions had to develop sources of funds before that could make loans. At the time of the case, the generation of additional funds through additional capital contributions did not appear to be a feasible option. The options available to the institutions were (1) stimulating savings account activity (the primary option), and (2) increasing borrowings from the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (the secondary option).

Generating additional loanable capital through the stimulation of savings account activity depended largely on the competitive interest rate structure for savings accounts. An increase in the interest (or dividend) rate paid on savings accounts would presumably lead to increased savings account activity. Increasing the rate paid on savings accounts, however, also had a downside. First, the increased rate paid on savings accounts would cause the rates charged on loans to increase if existing interest rate margins were to be maintained. Increasing the rate

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titutions were volatile in their movements. Citizens Federal Savings and Loan was the most conservative of the eight institutions with respect to both interest rate levels and the frequency of changes in interest rates paid on savings accounts. Throughout this 18month period, Citizens Federal Savings and Loan maintained its position as the second largest savings account depository among the eight savings and loan institutions. Pioneer Investors (the largest savings account depository among the eight institutions) and Berkeley Savings and Loan (one of the smaller savings account depositories among the eight institutions) were only slightly less conservative in their interest rate policies than was Citizens Federal Savings & Loan. Lytton Savings (the smallest savings account depository among the eight institutions) was the most aggressive of the institutions with respect to interest rates paid on savings accounts. The remaining four institutions were middle of the road among the eight institutions with respect to interest rates paid on savings accounts. Two types of assessment of the effects of interest rates on savings account levels are appropriate in this analysis of the competitive environment within which Citizens Saving
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