Crisis myths true - Boston's reply to Minneapolis

A new paper from the Boston Federal Reserves takes issue with a recent paper from the Minneapolis Fed's that found four widely-held beliefs about the financial crisis of 2008 to be false.

The authors show that when using disaggregated data instead of financial aggregates they do find that bank lending to non-financial corporations and individuals has indeed declined sharply, interbank lending is essentially nonexistent and commercial paper issuance by nonfinancial corporations has declined

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