Showing 1 - 10 of 70,052
paper, we study experimentally how such stigma can be cured. We find that, once a Discount Window facility is stigmatized …, removing stigma is difficult. This result is consistent with the Federal Reserve's experiences which have been unsuccessful at … removing the stigma associated with its Discount Window. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532114
We examine the financial conditions of dealers that participated in two of the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort (LOLR) facilities -- the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) and the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF) -- that provided liquidity against a range of assets during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404154
We study Discount Window (DW) stigma, the reluctance to access the Federal Reserve's lender-of-last-resort facility … among smaller banks and when financial markets experience disruptions. In particular, evidence of DW stigma emerged months … stigma. The implications of these results for the provision of emergency liquidity are discussed. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015135319
This paper uses panel econometric techniques to estimate a macro-financial model for fee and commission income over total assets for a broad sample of euro area banks. Using the estimated parameters, it conducts a scenario analysis projecting the fee and commission income ratio over a three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637365
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801676
Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494187
We use daily transactional ledger data from the Bank of England's Archive to test whether and to what extent the Bank of England during the mid-nineteenth century adhered to Walter Bagehot's rule that a central bank in a financial crisis should lend cash freely at a high interest rate in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011748529
This paper contributes to the literature on moral hazard, lending of last resort and the political origins of banking crises. Drawing on newly accessed quantitative and qualitative archival sources the paper documents how a bank-Banco de Cataluña-formed a coalition with the Dictatorship of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382074
Are central bank tools effective in reaching non-banks with no access to the lender-of-last-resort facilities? Using runs on mutual funds in March 2020 as a laboratory, we show that, following the announcement of large-scale purchases, funds with higher ex ante shares of assets eligible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278675
This paper investigates the impact of ample liquidity provision by the European Central Bank on the functioning of the overnight unsecured interbank market from 2008 to 2014. We use novel data on interbank transactions derived from TARGET2, the main euro area payment system. To identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998230