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Market response to policy initiatives during the global financial crisis

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  • Aït-Sahalia, Yacine
  • Andritzky, Jochen
  • Jobst, Andreas
  • Nowak, Sylwia
  • Tamirisa, Natalia

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic and financial sector policy announcements in the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia during the recent crisis. Overall, policy interventions were associated with a reduction in interbank risk premia, most significantly for recapitalization programs. By contrast, decisions to bail out individual banks in an ad hoc manner or let them fail were accompanied by a significant rise in interbank risk premia. Most policy announcements had international spillovers. These results are broadly robust to using alternative measures of financial distress and varying the size of the event window.

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Article provided by Elsevier in its journal Journal of International Economics.

Volume (Year): 87 (2012)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 162-177

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Handle: RePEc:eee:inecon:v:87:y:2012:i:1:p:162-177
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.12.001
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Keywords: Crisis; Announcements; Interbank; Financial; Policy; Event;

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  • G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
  • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
  • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
  • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
  • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
  • E63 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Comparative or Joint Analysis of Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Stabilization; Treasury Policy

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