Financial Market Liquidity and the Lender of Last Resort

Christian Ewerhart and Natacha Valla

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: It has been argued in the literature that emergency liquidity injections should be conducted preferably in the form of open market operations. As we show in the present paper, this is not necessarily the case when liquidity may be alternatively used for speculative purposes during the crisis. In such a situation, non-discriminating operations may attract unfunded market participants that divert funding resources away from its best uses in the financial sector. As a consequence, targeted liquidity assistance may become strictly superior. The analysis might have a bearing on recent developments in the context of the subprime crisis.

Keywords: Liquidity; Financial markets; Lender of last resort. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2007
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