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Central Bank Intervention and Bank Liquidity: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

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  • Parush Arora

    (Ashoka University)

  • Derek Tran

    (Economist, Amazon.com Inc.)

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This paper uses loan-level transactions from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to understand how a bank’s decision to borrow funds from the discount window (DW) affected its lending behavior during the COVID-19 crisis. Implementation of the PPP can be seen as an exogenous shock to the liquidity demand for banks, independent of their financial conditions. By exploiting this independence, we find a causal relationship between use of DW and the number of PPP loans extended by large banks but not small banks. While both types used the DW in the absence of a long-term funding source, usage of the DW almost doubled PPP lending for large banks. After the establishment of a long-term funding source, however, this effect was reduced to 69% due to substitution away from the DW. These findings suggest that in the presence of an unexpected liquidity shock, the DW plays a critical role in extending short-term liquidity to the banking sector.

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  • Parush Arora & Derek Tran, 2024. "Central Bank Intervention and Bank Liquidity: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program," Working Papers 132, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
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    JEL classification:

    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
    • 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

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