Financial Market Liquidity and the Lender of Last Resort
44 Pages Posted: 10 Oct 2010
Date Written: September 2007
Abstract
It has been argued in the literature that emergency liquidity injections should be conducted preferably in the form of open market operations. As we show in the present paper, this is not necessarily the case when liquidity may be alternatively used for speculative purposes during the crisis. In such a situation, non-discriminating operations may attract unfunded market participants that divert funding resources away from its best uses in the financial sector. As a consequence, targeted liquidity assistance may become strictly superior. The analysis might have a bearing on recent developments in the context of the subprime crisis.
Keywords: Liquidity, financial markets, lender of last resort
JEL Classification: G14, G18
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