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March 2005, No. 212
Last Updated: 02/15/2005

Discount Window Borrowing: Understanding Recent Experience

Craig H. Furfine

By changing how it operates the discount window, the Fed aims to provide banks with a less burdensome source of short-term funding and to encourage commercial banks to occasionally use the Fed as a source of short-term funds.