This thesis focuses on solving financial crisis throught foreign exchange swaps. Facilities, which provided help to Banks around the world called swap lines. These facilities introduced U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) in late 2007. The swap lines were one of the many liquidity programs that Fed conducted in order to provide liquidity to the global banking system. Using indicator 3M Libor -- OIS spread, which informs about the problems in the interbank markets, is studied the impact of these swap facilities to the global banking system. It was found, that impact of swap lines were positive, but not because of announcement effect. Swap lines had positive impact only after an enormous increase in the volume of U.S. dollars in transactions. In other part of thesis is estimated revenue and expenses for the Fed. Revenues are campared with the data in the annual report. Revenues are estimated as a sum of all the interest payments in all banks, which dollars from the swap lines "spilled" into their jurisdictions. Costs are estimated as a opportunity costs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:142202 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Minařík, Petr |
| Contributors | Brůna, Karel, Jakl, Jakub |
| Publisher | Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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