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Coordination failures and the lender of last resort: was Bagehot right after all?

Description : The classical doctrine of the Lender of Last Resort, elaborated by Thornton (1802) and Bagehot (1873), asserts that the Central Bank should lend to “illiquid but solvent” banks under certain conditions. Several authors have argued that this view is now obsolete: when interbank markets are e¢cient, a...
Language(s) : Undetermined
Subject(s) : HG Finance , HB Economic Theory
Publisher(s) : Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Publication Date(s) : 2002-02-01