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Discount window borrowing: understanding recent experience


Abstract: By changing how it operates the discount window, the Fed aims to provide banks with a less burdensome source of short-term funding and to encourage commercial banks to occasionally use the Fed as a source of short-term funds.

Keywords: Discount window;

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Part of Series: Chicago Fed Letter

Publication Date: 2005

Issue: Mar

Order Number: 212