Stressed, not frozen: the Federal Funds market in the financial crisis

Gara Afonso, Anna Kovner and Antoinette Schoar

No 437, Staff Reports from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: We examine the importance of liquidity hoarding and counterparty risk in the U.S. overnight interbank market during the financial crisis of 2008. Our findings suggest that counterparty risk plays a larger role than does liquidity hoarding: the day after Lehman Brothers? bankruptcy, loan terms become more sensitive to borrower characteristics. In particular, poorly performing large banks see an increase in spreads of 25 basis points, but are borrowing 1 percent less, on average. Worse performing banks do not hoard liquidity. While the interbank market does not freeze entirely, it does not seem to expand to meet latent demand.

Keywords: interbank lending; financial crisis; hoarding; fed funds; liquidity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D40 E40 G01 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2010-03-01
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Note: For a published version of this report, see Gara Afonso, Anna Kovner, and Antoinette Schoar, "Stressed, Not Frozen: The Federal Funds Market in the Financial Crisis," Journal of Finance 66, no. 4 (August 2011): 1109-39.
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