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Crisis Management in Canada: Analyzing Default Risk and Liquidity Demand during Financial Stress

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  • Jason Allen
  • Ali Hortaçsu
  • Jakub Kastl

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Using detailed information from the Canadian interbank payments system and liquidity-providing facilities, we find that despite sustained increases in market-rate spreads, the increase in banks' willingness to pay for liquidity during the 2008–2009 financial crisis was short-lived. Our study suggests that high-frequency distress indicators based on demand for liquidity offered by central banks can be complementary, and perhaps even superior, to market-based indicators, especially during times and in markets where uncertainty in the economic environment may lead to lack of meaningful information in prices due to absence of trading.

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  • Jason Allen & Ali Hortaçsu & Jakub Kastl, 2021. "Crisis Management in Canada: Analyzing Default Risk and Liquidity Demand during Financial Stress," American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, American Economic Association, vol. 13(2), pages 243-275, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:aejmic:v:13:y:2021:i:2:p:243-75
    DOI: 10.1257/mic.20160287
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    1. Albuquerque, Rui & Costa, José & Faias, Jose, 2022. "Price elasticity of demand and risk-bearing capacity in sovereign bond auctions," CEPR Discussion Papers 17095, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

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    JEL classification:

    • E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G28 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • H12 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Crisis Management

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