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The Federal Funds Market, Pre- and Post-2008

Swanson, Eric T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter provides an overview of the federal funds market and how the equilibrium federal fund rate is determined. I devote particular attention to comparing and contrasting the federal funds market before and after 2008, since there were several dramatic changes around that time that...

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Collective Moral Hazard and the Interbank Market

Altinoglu, Levent; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The concentration of risk within the financial system leads to systemic instability. We propose a theory to explain the structure of the financial system and show how it alters the risk taking incentives of financial institutions when the government optimally intervenes during crises. By issuing...

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The Industrial Organization of Financial Markets

Clark, Robert; Houde, Jean-François; Kastl, Jakub - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This chapter discusses recent developments in the literature involving applications of industrial organization methods to finance. We structure our discussion around a simple model of a financial intermediary that concentrates its attention either on (i) the retail market and hence engages in a...

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Interest Received by Banks during the Financial Crisis : LIBOR vs Hypothetical SOFR Loans

Jermann, Urban J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The credit sensitivity of LIBOR helped lenders during the financial crisis. SOFR is not credit-sensitive and would not … have provided that support. The cumulative additional interest from LIBOR during the crisis is estimated to be between 1 …% to 2% of the notional amount of outstanding loans, depending on the tenor and type of SOFR rate used. The amount of LIBOR …

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The Collateral Channel of Monetary Policy : Evidence from China

Fang, Hanming - 2020

Collateral-based monetary policy tools have been used extensively by major central banks. Lack of proper policy counterfactuals, however, makes it difficult to empirically identify their causal effects on the financial market and the real economy. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment in China,...

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Chinese Bond Market and Interbank Market

Amstad, Marlene - 2019

Over the past twenty years, especially the past decade, China has taken enormous strides to develop its bond market as an integral step of financial reform. This paper aims to provide the most up-to-date overview of Chinese bond markets, by highlighting two distinct and largely segmented...

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Interbank Connections, Contagion and Bank Distress in the Great Depression

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2019

Liquidity shocks transmitted through interbank connections contributed to bank distress during the Great Depression. New data on interbank connections reveal that banks were much more likely to close when their correspondents closed. Further, after the Federal Reserve was established, banks'...

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The Founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression and the Evolution of the U.S. Interbank Network

Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2019

Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the Great Depression. Banks established connections to...

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Bail-ins and Bail-outs : Incentives, Connectivity, and Systemic Stability

Bernard, Benjamin - 2017

This paper develops a framework to analyze the consequences of alternative designs for interbank networks, in which a failure of one bank may lead to others. Earlier work had suggested that, provided shocks were not too large (or too correlated), denser networks were preferred to more sparsely...

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Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification during the Great Depression

Mitchener, Kris James - 2016

Interbank networks amplified the contraction in lending during the Great Depression. Banking panics induced banks in the hinterland to withdraw interbank deposits from Federal Reserve member banks located in reserve and central reserve cities. These correspondent banks responded by curtailing...

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