01619cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000831 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451845815 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Huang, Haizhou. A Model of the Lender of Last Resort / Haizhou Huang, C. Goodhart. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999. 1 online resource (33 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper develops a model of the lender of last resort. It provides an analytical basis for 'too big too fail' and a rationale for 'constructive ambiguity'. Key results are that if contagion (moral hazard) is the main concern, the Central Bank (CB) will have an excessive (little) incentive to rescue banks and the resulting equilibrium risk level is high (low). When both contagion and moral hazard are jointly analyzed, the CB's incentives to rescue are only slightly weaker than with contagion alone. The CB's optimal policy may be non-monotonic in bank size. Mode of access: Internet Goodhart, C. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/039 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1999/039/001.1999.issue-039-en.xml IMF e-Library