Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41415 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 09
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper develops a theoretical model which explains several stylized facts observed in the euro area interbank market after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The model shows that if costs of participating in the interbank market are high, the central bank assumes an intermediary function between liquidity surplus banks and liquidity deficit banks and thereby replaces the interbank market. From a policy perspective, we argue that possible measures of the Eurosystem to reactivate the interbank market may conflict, inter alia, with monetary policy aims.
Subjects: 
Liquidity
Monetary Policy Instruments
Interbank Market
Financial Crisis
JEL: 
E52
E58
G01
G21
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-008-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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