Sentences with phrase «central bank liquidity swaps»

Central bank liquidity swaps are negligible now, though it was high as high as ~ $ 600B.

Second, you see the crisis responses: 1) the loan programs in the US, which explode and trail away and 2) the Central Bank Liquidity Swaps, which explode, trail away, and have come back in what is presently a muted form today.

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A: No, I think that when interest rates are constrained by the zero bound, it is appropriate for central banks to look, if conditions warrant, for other ways to be expansionary and swapping short term assets for long term assets or what is the equivalent of a liquidity trap, printing money and buying long term assets, can be a reasonable solution.

In response, the Fed reduced the federal funds rate to essentially zero by mid-December, instituted swap lines to provide dollar liquidity to foreign central banks, added new liquidity facilities to target specific sectors of the shadow banking system and began to expand its balance sheet through asset purchases.

-- For now, the press is reporting that central banks are mulling dollar supply via bilateral swap lines in the case of a liquidity squeeze upon a «no» vote.