Bernanke lectures on financial crises patterns
Katherine OhHaving an individual, a company or a central bank willing to lend to banks is crucial in responding to financial panics,Former chairman of the Federal Reserve and former economics department chair of the University Ben Bernanke said in a lecture Tuesday.“Lender of last resort activity is a critical tool to stopping bank runs,” Bernanke said.Bernanke used the 1907 financial panic as an example, explaining that there was no central bank to deal with it as the Federal Reserve had not yet been instituted.