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Working Paper

The Financial Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

August 1, 2020
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Michael S. Barr, Howell E. Jackson, Margaret E. Tahyar
This paper, written to assist faculty in teaching about the pandemic, focuses on key actions taken by the financial regulators in response to the crisis so far, giving a detailed summary of the actions taken by the Federal Reserve, the Treasury...
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Too LIBOR, Too Late: Time to Move to a Market Rate

July 21, 2015
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Michael S. Barr
Barclays has been fined, the British have issued their report, and now the market is anxious for everything to go on as usual with the London Interbank Offer Rate (“LIBOR”). I think that would be a serious mistake. The U.S. and British...