Ashcraft, Adam; McAndrews, James; Skeie, David - 2009
Liquidity hoarding by banks and extreme volatility of the fed funds rate have been widely seen as severely disrupting … present empirical evidence on banks' precautionary hoarding of reserves, their reluctance to lend, and extreme fed funds rate … against liquidity shocks. Moreover, the intraday fed funds rate can spike above the discount rate and crash to near zero …