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COVID-19 and the Fed’s Credit Policy

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Summarized by Pat H: this paper gives a largely critical view of the Fed's recent foray into credit policy through its numerous emergency lending facilities and discusses such actions' implications for moral hazard and for central bank independence.

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  • Hetzel, Robert, 2020. "COVID-19 and the Fed’s Credit Policy," Working Papers 10689, George Mason University, Mercatus Center.
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