We study Discount Window (DW) stigma, the reluctance to access the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort facility …

" through its Discount Window. The Discount Window, however, has not been effective because its usage is stigmatized. In this … paper, we study experimentally how such stigma can be cured. We find that, once a Discount Window facility is stigmatized … removing the stigma associated with its Discount Window. …

We study Discount Window (DW) stigma, the reluctance to access the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort facility …

" through its Discount Window. The Discount Window, however, has not been effective because its usage is stigmatized. In this … paper, we study experimentally how such stigma can be cured. We find that, once a Discount Window facility is stigmatized … removing the stigma associated with its Discount Window. …