Options of Last Resort

Erin Denison, Michael Fleming, Warren Hrung and Asani Sarkar

No 20180226, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: During the global financial crisis of 2007-08, collateral markets became illiquid, making it difficult for dealers to obtain short-term funding to finance their positions. As lender of last resort, the Federal Reserve responded with various programs to promote liquidity in these markets, including the Primary Dealer Credit Facility and the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF). In this post, we describe an additional and rarely discussed liquidity facility introduced by the Fed during the crisis: the TSLF Options Program (TOP). The TOP was unique among crisis-period liquidity facilities in its provision of options. A follow-up post will analyze dealer participation in the TOP.

Keywords: Dealers; Liquidity Facilities; Crisis; Lender of Last Resort (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-02-26
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