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A Simple Model of An International Lender of Last Resort

By Haizhou Huang, C. A. E. Goodhart

April 1, 2000

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Haizhou Huang, and C. A. E. Goodhart A Simple Model of An International Lender of Last Resort, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 21, 2024
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This paper develops a simple model of an international lender of last resort (ILOLR). The world economy consists of many open economies, each with a banking system and a central bank operating under a pegged exchange rate regime. The fragility of the banking system and the limited ability of a domestic central bank to provide international liquidity together can cause currency and banking crises. An international interbank market can help an economy with the needed international liquidity, but with potential costs of international financial contagion. An ILOLR can play a useful role in providing international liquidity and reducing international contagion.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Financial crises, Financial markets

Keywords: Bank run, Banking crises, Banking crisis, Central bank, Currency crises, Currency crisis, Demand deposit, Fragility of the banking system, Illiquid bank, Interbank markets, International interbank market, International lender of last resort, Lender of last resort, Liquidity, Liquidity shock, Model of an international lender of last resort, Net reserve, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    13

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2000/075

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0752000

  • ISBN:

    9781451849721

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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