The search for a market design that ensures stable bank funding is at the top of regulators' policy agenda. This paper empirically shows that the central counterparty (CCP)-based euro interbank repo market features this stability. Using a unique and comprehensive data set, we show that the...

This paper develops a theoretical model which replicates main features of the euro overnight interbank market and the Eurosystem's operational framework, which has been in place since September 2008. Main ingredients of the model are frictions in the interbank market, a refinancing operation...