The Federal Reserve as lender of last resort during the subprime crisis: Successful stabilisation without structural changes

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This paper studies the actions of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) during the financial crisis from 2007-2012 rating the performance of the Federal Reserve during the crisis. The chosen scoring model approach shows that the average performance of five specific measures taken by the FRB only ranks between fair and good. Comparing Stiglitz (2010) viewpoints with those of the FRB, this paper analyses several policies and events and argues that the resulting decisions were well intentioned but that the outcome was different from expectations because of missing regulations and restrictions. Furthermore, the structure of the FRB is examined and criticized.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 65/2016

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems ; Central Banks and Their Policies ; General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation ; Studies of Particular Policy Episodes

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Herr, Hansjörg ; Rüdiger, Sina ; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/130246
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