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Causes of the Korean Financial Crisis : Lessons for Policy

Hahm, Joon-Ho - 2000

This paper uses an asymmetric information framework to understand the causes of the recent financial crisis in Korea. It shows that the Korean data is consistent with this explanation of the crisis. It then draws on this analysis to discuss several lessons that can help guide Korean policymakers...

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Contingent Credit Under Stress

Acharya, Viral V.; Jager, Maximilian; Steffen, Sascha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit lines, their significance in managing corporate liquidity, and the …

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Are Banks Passive Liquidity Backstops? Deposit Rates and Flows during the 2007-2009 Crisis

Acharya, Viral V. - 2012

Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The … liquidity insurer is not one of the passive recipient, but of an active seeker, of deposits. We find that banks facing a funding … liquidity demand shocks (as measured by their unused commitments, wholesale funding dependence, and limited liquid assets), as …

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Bankruptcy Exemption of Repo Markets : Too Much Today for Too Little Tomorrow?

Acharya, Viral V.; Anshuman, V. Ravi; Viswanathan, S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

-and-repurchase (repo) contracts. Exemption from an automatic stay in bankruptcy enables financial intermediaries to raise greater liquidity … and induces entry of intermediaries with higher leverage during normal times. This liquidity creation occurs, however, at …

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Financial Policies and the Prevention of Financial Crises in Emerging Market Countries

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2001

This paper outlines a set of financial policies that can help make financial crises less likely in emerging market countries. To justify these policies, the paper first explains what a financial crisis is, the factors that promote a financial crisis and the dynamics of a financial crisis. It...

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Does the Lack of Financial Stability Impair the Transmission of Monetary Policy?

Acharya, Viral V. - 2019

We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the period … bank liquidity does not translate into lower loan spreads for high-risk banks for maturities beyond one year, even as it …

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Monetary Policy Strategy : Lessons from the Crisis

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2011

This paper examines what we have learned and how we should change our thinking about monetary policy strategy in the aftermath of the 2007-2009 financial crisis. It starts with a discussion of where the science of monetary policy was before the crisis and how central banks viewed monetary policy...

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Is Monetary Policy Effective During Financial Crises?

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2009

This short paper argues that the view that monetary policy is ineffective during financial crises is not only wrong, but may promote policy inaction in the face of a severe contractionary shock. To the contrary, monetary policy is more potent during financial crises because aggressive monetary...

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U.S. Stock Market Crashes and Their Aftermath : Implications for Monetary Policy

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2002

This paper examines fifteen historical episodes of stock market crashes and their aftermath in the United States over the last one hundred years. Our basic conclusion from studying these episodes is that financial instability is the key problem facing monetary policy makers and not stock market...

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Unprecedented Actions : The Federal Reserve’s Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective

Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2014

Interventions by the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis of 2007-2009 were generally viewed as unprecedented and in violation of the rules--notably Bagehot's rule--that a central bank should follow to avoid the time-inconsistency problem and moral hazard. Reviewing the evidence for...

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