August 2022: New VoxEU Column – The Fed’s international dollar liquidity facilities: Roles and effects

By Linda Goldberg, Fabiola Ravazzolo With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve, along with other central banks, deployed international global liquidity backstops to counter stressed market conditions. This column analyses the effectiveness of central bank swap lines and the Foreign and International Authorities repo facility. It finds that these facilities contributed to[…]