Financial Crises As the Failure of Arbitrage: Implications for Monetary Policy

Makoto Saito and Shigenori Shiratsuka ()

Monetary and Economic Studies, 2001, vol. 19, issue S1, 239-270

Abstract: This paper attempts to view financial crises as the failure of arbitrage among financial markets, and takes the "Japan premium" phenomenon observed in offshore money markets as an important example in favor of this view. In addition, we reconsider, from this perspective, the open market operations conducted b a central bank during a period of financial distress. The paper first derives from the existing theoretical literature several implications regarding how arbitrage among markets is prevented when financial institutions such as investors and intermediaries suffer from severe liquidity constraints, and then examines empirically such theoretical implications using the data available from offshore money markets. Given these implications, explored both theoretically and empirically, the paper finally discusses a possible role played by a central bank in recovering market liquidity when markets are segmented in the absence of financial arbitrage.

JEL-codes: E43 E52 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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