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Economic Commentary

Do Excess Reserves Reveal Credit Crunches?

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The anticipated economic recovery is haunted by the specter that banks, under pressure from regulators and shareholders, will make too few loans to reignite the economy. Like a phantom, this socalled credit crunch eludes attempts to pin it down, quantify it, or dissect it.

07.15.1991EC 7/15/1991

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Haubrich, Joseph G. 1991. “Do Excess Reserves Reveal Credit Crunches?” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary 7/15/1991.

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