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European banks and Fed liquidity facilities during the Global Financial Crisis: Good news for the bad and bad news for the good

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  • Hervé Alexandre

    (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Catherine Refait-Alexandre

    (CRESE - Centre de REcherches sur les Stratégies Economiques (UR 3190) - UFC - Université de Franche-Comté - UBFC - Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE])

  • Larry D Wall

    (Federal Bank of Atlanta)

Abstract

The Fed operated various liquidity facilities during 2007-10 that were intended to alleviate financial system stress but could have been interpreted as an adverse signal. We analyze the response of the credit default swap market to the announcement and usage of these facilities by European banks. We find that Fed financial assistance tended to reduce market perception of risk if the information was related to Fed’s liquidity policies and increased risk perceptions when the information was more about banks’ riskiness. We also find the facilities reduced the perceived risk of publicly assisted banks but increased the perceived risk of banks that were not assisted.
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  • Hervé Alexandre & Catherine Refait-Alexandre & Larry D Wall, 2024. "European banks and Fed liquidity facilities during the Global Financial Crisis: Good news for the bad and bad news for the good," Working Papers hal-04604794, HAL.
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    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • 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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