How to Stop a Herd of Running Bears? Market Response to Policy Initiatives During the Global Financial Crisis

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Yacine Ait-Sahalia

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Princeton University - Department of Economics

Jochen R. Andritzky

International Monetary Fund (IMF); German Council of Economic Experts

Andreas (Andy) Jobst

Central Bank of the UAE

Sylwia Barbara Nowak

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Natalia T. Tamirisa

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Date Written: September 1, 2009

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic and financial sector policy announcements in the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia. Announcements of interest rate cuts, liquidity support, liability guarantees, and recapitalization were associated with a reduction of interbank risk premia, albeit to a different degree during the subprime and global phases of the crisis. Decisions not to reduce interest rates and bail out individual banks in an ad hoc manner had adverse repercussions, both domestically and abroad. The results are robust to controlling for the surprise content of announcements and using alternative measures of financial distress.

Keywords: Crisis, policy, announcement, event, financial, liquidity, monetary, fiscal, bank

JEL Classification: G01, G14, G15, G18, E65, E63

Suggested Citation

Ait-Sahalia, Yacine and Andritzky, Jochen and Andritzky, Jochen and Jobst, Andreas A. and Nowak, Sylwia Barbara and Tamirisa, Natalia T., How to Stop a Herd of Running Bears? Market Response to Policy Initiatives During the Global Financial Crisis (September 1, 2009). International Monetary Fund, WP No. 09/204, 22nd Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2009, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1461222 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1461222

Yacine Ait-Sahalia

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Natalia T. Tamirisa

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