By Jeanne Gobat
The breakdown of the short-term funding markets was one of the most striking features of the global financial crisis. Equally astonishing, and unexpected, was the central role that U.S. money market mutual funds played in contributing to this wholesale shut-down.
In our chapter on systemic liquidity risk in the October 2010 Global Financial Stability Report, we describe this aspect of the financial crisis and propose some concrete recommendations on how to fix it. (more…)
Filed under: Advanced Economies, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Financial regulation, Financial sector supervision, IMF, International Monetary Fund | Tagged: asset quality, Financial regulation, Global Financial Stability Report, Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy, liquidity rules, money market mutual funds, net asset value, repo operations, Reserve Primary Fund, Securities and Exchange Commission, short-term funding markets, systemic liquidity risk, wholesale funding market | 1 Comment »
