COVID-19 crisis : lessons learned for future policy research / by Jean-Sébastien Fontaine, Corey Garriott, Jesse Johal, Jessica Lee and Andreas Uthemann.: FB3-6/2021-2E-PDF

"Fixed-income markets were disrupted at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis. As whole industries temporarily shut down, businesses and households ran down their savings or needed credit to survive income losses. As volatility increased, portfolio managers sold securities to manage their leveraged exposures or meet actual and anticipated margin calls and redemption requests. In financial markets, a substantial part of the demand for money came from asset managers. When the dealer arms of commercial banks approached their internal risk limits, the demand for money outpaced their willingness to deal or lend against securities, and trading costs rose in core and peripheral funding markets. The unprecedented scale of interventions by the Bank of Canada and other central banks raises questions that we pose for future policy research. Can central banks’ policies and crisis interventions in financial markets better reflect the growing role that asset managers play in the financial system? And can the structure of financial markets be made less reliant on the capacity of banks to supply money?"--Abstract, page ii.

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Department/Agency Bank of Canada, issuing body.
Title COVID-19 crisis : lessons learned for future policy research / by Jean-Sébastien Fontaine, Corey Garriott, Jesse Johal, Jessica Lee and Andreas Uthemann.
Series title Staff discussion paper = Document d'analyse du personnel, 1914-0568 ; 2021-2
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) Cover title.
"February 24, 2021."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 32-33).
Publishing information Ottawa, Ontario, Canada : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2021.
©2021
Author / Contributor Fontaine, Jean-Sébastien, author.
Description 1 online resource (ii, 33 pages) : graphs.
Catalogue number
  • FB3-6/2021-2E-PDF
Subject terms COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
Banks and banking, Central -- Research.
Monetary policy.
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020- -- Aspect économique -- Canada.
Banques centrales -- Recherche.
Politique monétaire.
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