The roles of central banks in the advanced economies have expanded and multiplied since the beginning of the crisis. The conventional monetary policy roles - setting interest rates in the pursuit of macroeconomic stability and acting as lender of last resort and market maker of last resort to...

The purpose of this Paper is to study the determinants of equilibrium in the market for daily funds. We use the EONIA panel database which includes daily information on the lending rates applied by contributing commercial banks. The data clearly shows an increase in both the time series...

We construct a model to analyse the two types of tender procedures used by the European Central Bank (ECB) in its open market operations. We assume that the ECB minimizes the expected value of a loss function that depends on the quadratic difference between the interbank rate and a target...

The Federal Reserve’s AMLF program was designed to provide liquidity to money market funds (MMFs). Between September 2008 and May 2009, the program made $217 billion in non-recourse loans to depository institutions and bank holding companies to purchase asset-backed commercial paper from MMFs....

The two most topical issues in current financial markets deal with the causes of the recent financial crisis and the means to prevent future crises. This book addresses the latter and stresses a major shift in most countries toward a better understanding of financial stability and how it can be...

AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionThe Central Bank's Legitimacy When It Has a Financial Stability RoleThe political nature of the central bank's financial stability roleThe perceived legitimacy of the Eurosystem as provider of financial stabilityThe Eurosystem's output...

AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionFinancial Instability in the 1920sConvoy System to Prevent Bank FailuresBank of Japan After the New Bank of Japan Act of 1998Monetary Policy and Prudential PolicyLessons from the Experiences of the Bank of JapanReferences

AbstractWe have before us in the session three different and yet complementary “takes” on what is meant by the social productivity of the financial sector, and three calls, directly or indirectly, for further research. Ross Levine looks at the ways that finance adds to social welfare by...

AbstractThe following sections are included:The Analysis and ResultsPolicy ImplicationsReferences

AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionThe Cause of the Global Financial CrisisCausesFlexible Inflation Targeting (FIT) and BubbleDigression: The Japanese Bubble ExperienceMiddle Ground: Should the Central Bank Target Asset Prices?Collecting and Calculating Housing Price...