The effects of lender of last resort on financial intermediation during the great depression in Japan

Ginko Hatan gaoyobosu Densenkoka no Bunseki (The analyses of the effect of contagion caused by bank failures)

Masami Imai (), Tetsuji Okazaki and Michiru Sawada

European Review of Economic History, 2022, vol. 26, issue 3, 448-478

Abstract: The Bank of Japan (BOJ) expanded its liquidity provision in response to a series of financial panics from 1931–1932; however, the BOJ restricted its lending mostly to correspondent banks. We use the BOJ’s preferential treatment of correspondent banks as a quasi-experimental setting to examine the impact of central bank lending on financial intermediation. We find that deposits and loans did not fall as fast for correspondent banks as for other banks during the panic period. Furthermore, correspondent banks were less likely to be closed. The results suggest that central banks’ liquidity provision plays a critical backstop role during financial stringency.

Date: 2022
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Working Paper: The Effects of Lender of Last Resort on Financial Intermediation during the Great Depression in Japan (2019)
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Working Paper: The Effects of Lender of Last Resort on Financial Intermediation during the Great Depression in Japan (2019)
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