Monitoring, liquidity provision and financial crisis

Gabriela Mundaca

No 04/2007, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes central bank policies on monitoring banks in distress when liquidity provisions are conditional on performance and a bad shock occurs. A sequential game model is used to analyze two policies: one in which the central bank acts with discretion and the second in which the optimal monitoring policy rule is made public. The results show that banks exert less effort and take higher risks with discretionary monitoring policy. With public information about monitoring rules, there is more central bank monitoring and less need to provide emergency financing. Public information about monitoring resolves the multiple equilibria that arise with discretion and a unique equilibrium emerges where the probability of banking crisis is reduced.

Keywords: Monitoring; bailouts; banking crises; commitments; conditionality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E58 G21 G28 G38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2007-01-10, Revised 2009-03-01
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