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Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act

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  • Haelim Anderson

    (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

  • Guillermo Ordonez

    (University of Pennsylvania)

  • Selman Erol

    (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business)

Abstract

Central banks provide public liquidity (through lending facilities and promises of bailouts) with the intent to stabilize financial markets. Even though this provision is restricted to member (regulated) banks, an interbank system can in principle develop so to give indirect access to nonmember (shadow) banks. We construct a model to understand how the network may change in the presence of Central Bank interventions and how those changes can translate into more room for contagion and an endogenously higher financial fragility. We provide evidence that upon the introduction of the Fed’s lending facilities in 1914, aggregate liquidity declined and systemic risks increased.

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  • Haelim Anderson & Guillermo Ordonez & Selman Erol, 2019. "Interbank Networks in the Shadows of the Federal Reserve Act," 2019 Meeting Papers 1285, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    JEL classification:

    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • D85 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Network Formation
    • E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
    • N21 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913

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