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Fighting Crises with Secrecy

By Gary Gorton and Guillermo Ordoñez

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, October 2020

How does central bank lending during a crisis restore confidence? Emergency lending facilities that are opaque (in that names of borrowers are kept secret) raise the perceived average quality of bank assets in the economy, creating an information external...