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The Fed, liquidity, and credit allocation
The current financial turmoil has generated considerable discussion of liquidity. Moreover, it has been widely reported that the Federal Reserve played a major role in supplying liquidity to financial markets during this distressed time. This article describes two ways in which the Fed has supplied liquidity since late 2007. The first is traditional: The Fed supplies liquidity by providing credit through open market operations and by lending to depository institutions at the so-called discount window. The second is by enhancing the liquidity of portfolios of some institutions by replacing ...
Conference Paper
Do informational frictions justify federal credit programs?
Journal Article
Social priorities and the market allocation of credit
Conference Paper
Introduction