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We use the founding of the Federal Reserve as a historical experiment to provide some insight into whether a lender of last resort can stabilize financial markets. Following the Panic of 1907, Congress passed two measures that established a lender of last resort in the United States: (1) the...
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This paper surveys the role of the Federal Reserve within the financial regulatory system, with particular attention to the interaction of the Fed's role as both a supervisor and a lender-of-last-resort (LOLR). The institutional design of the Federal Reserve System was aimed at preventing...
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. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general … are misleading. We find that - because there is greater inertia in the ECB's policy rule - the ECB's policy actions … out to be only a slowdown, and inflation never departed from levels consistent with the ECB's quantitative definition of …
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Bank (ECB) provide a natural experiment for this model. Tests of the effect of news announcements on the slope of yield … the ECB during its first six years of operation significantly evolved, with a belief in its inflation aversion increasing …
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While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and … moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarizes the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention …
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primary objective of the ECB. and the necessary monetary functions and operations of the system are defined in accordance with … standard practice. The maintenance of a stable financial and payments system, however. is not an explicit objective of the ECB …
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In this paper I focus on two specific hazard areas in the transition from Stage Two to Stage Three of European economic and monetary union (EMU), as well as on some key problems of Stage Three that EMU's monetary and fiscal structures appear ill-prepared to handle. The transitional hazards are...
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We evaluate the effects of three ECB policies (the Securities Markets Programme, the Outright Monetary Transactions …, and the Long-Term Refinancing Operations) on government bond yields. We use a novel Kalman-filter augmented event …
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This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic and financial sector policy announcements in the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia. Announcements of interest rate cuts, liquidity support, liability...
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amplification in response to domestic shocks or global spillovers and pecuniary externalities caused by Fisherian collateral …
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