Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60869 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 563
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper examines the Federal Reserve's unprecedented liquidity provision during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. It first reviews how the Fed provides liquidity in normal times. It then explains how the Fed's new and expanded liquidity facilities were intended to enable the central bank to fulfill its traditional lender-of-last-resort role during the crisis while mitigating stigma, broadening the set of institutions with access to liquidity, and increasing the flexibility with which institutions could tap such liquidity. The paper then assesses the growing empirical literature on the effectiveness of the facilities and provides insights as to where further research is warranted.
Subjects: 
central bank
liquidity facilities
lender of last resort
JEL: 
E58
G01
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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