The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed's Liquidity Facilities

Marco Del Negro, Gauti Eggertsson, Andrea Ferrero, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki

NBER Working Paper No. 22259
Issued in May 2016
NBER Program(s):Economic Fluctuations and Growth Program, Monetary Economics Program

We introduce liquidity frictions into an otherwise standard DSGE model with nominal and real rigidities and ask: Can a shock to the liquidity of private paper lead to a collapse in short-term nominal interest rates and a recession like the one associated with the 2008 U.S. financial crisis? Once the nominal interest rate reaches the zero bound, what are the effects of interventions in which the government provides liquidity in exchange for illiquid private paper? We find that the effects of the liquidity shock can be large, and show some numerical examples in which the liquidity facilities prevented a repeat of the Great Depression in 2008-2009.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w22259

Published: Marco Del Negro & Gauti Eggertsson & Andrea Ferrero & Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, 2017. "The Great Escape? A Quantitative Evaluation of the Fed's Liquidity Facilities," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 107(3), pages 824-857, March. citation courtesy of

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