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...

In the months preceding the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, banks were willing to pay a premium over the Federal Reserve's discount window (DW) rate to participate in the much less flexible Term Auction Facility (TAF). We empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model...

I use a fuzzy regression discontinuity design to study the impact of auction-based emergency liquidity at the onset of the 2007-09 crisis. My empirical design uses the presence of binding capacity constraints in the Federal Reserve's Term Auction Facility to isolate variation in short-term...

In his insightful and comprehensive review of the lender of last resort, Paul Tucker frames the discussion as one of how to best structure the provision of liquidity reinsurance. Because banks provide liquidity insurance in the form of both demandable deposits and callable credit lines, their...

Central banks create money to lend during credit crunches, which might lead to inflation. We examine whether the two key functions of central banks - price stability and last-resort lending - conflict. We develop a nominal model of bank runs à la Diamond and Dybvig (1983) in which individuals...