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We use daily transactional ledger data from the Bank of England's Archive to test whether and to what extent the Bank of England during the mid-nineteenth century adhered to Walter Bagehot's rule that a central bank in a financial crisis should lend cash freely at a high interest rate in...
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Central banks may engage in large-scale lending and asset purchases to stabilize financial markets and implement monetary policy during crises. The ability of these actions to restore financial market functioning is well documented; however, they come with costs. We provide a literature review of...
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Wirtschaftstätigkeit der betroffenen Nation ausgewirkt haben. Die Zentralbank hat im Zusammenhang mit systemweiten Störungen die Aufgabe … Wirtschaftssystem im Falle einer systemischen Krise durchläuft und wann die Zentralbank einzuschreiten hat. Dazu wird die … theoriengeschichtliche Entwicklung einer Zentralbank zum Kreditgeber der letzten Instanz beleuchtet. Die Analyse soll dabei Antworten darauf …
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Central banks play a crucial role in promoting financial stability. They act as financial system stabilizers through their capacity to create liquidity and channel it to financial institutions and markets in times of stress - a role that has evolved and expanded substantially over the past 15...
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In a framework closely related to Diamond and Rajan (2001) we characterize different financial systems and analyze the welfare implications of different LOLR-policies in these financial systems. We show that in a bank-dominated financial system it is less likely that a LOLR-policy that follows...
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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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