Expanding the Toolkit: Facilities Established to Respond to the COVID‑19 Pandemic
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Anna Kovner and Antoine Martin argue that the “credit” and lending facilities established by the Fed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while unprecedented, are a natural extension of the central bank’s existing toolkit.