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Final Bank Term Funding Program and Discount Window Borrowing
December 29, 2025
Borrowing Analysis with new period
This document provides a comprehensive analysis of bank borrowing behavior across Federal Reserve emergency facilities (BTFP and Discount Window) during the March 2023 banking crisis. With Added new models.
Bank Crisis Borrowing Decisions: Multinomial Choice Analysis
This analysis examines bank borrowing choices during the 2023 banking crisis using three complementary approaches:
Model Framework:
Linear Probability Model (LPM): BTFP vs DW among borrowers
Logit Model: BTFP vs DW among borrowers
Multinomial Logit: Choice among {No participation, BTFP only, DW only, Both BTFP+DW}
Trivariate Probit: Joint modeling of BTFP, DW, and FHLB decisions with error correlations.
Bank Emergency Borrowing During the March 2023 Crisis
This analysis examines bank borrowing behavior across Federal Reserve emergency facilities (BTFP and Discount Window) during the March 2023 banking crisis. We exploit the institutional differences between facilities—particularly BTFP’s par valuation of eligible collateral—to test whether banks strategically selected facilities based on balance sheet vulnerabilities.
Comprehensive Broadband Penetration Analysis (2018-2024
1. California State Maps
Individual county maps for each year (2018-2024)
Combined multi-panel view
Summary statistics table
2. US Maps by Year
Individual full US county maps for each year
Combined multi-panel overview
3. Year-to-Year Change Maps
Percentage change maps for each transition period
Uses diverging color scale (red for decrease, blue for increase)
Summary statistics for each period
4. Distribution Analysis
Histogram with kernel density overlay for each year
Normal distribution curve overlay (dashed green line)
Q-Q plots to assess normality
Statistical summaries (mean, median, SD)
5. Top/Bottom 1% and 5% Maps
Separate maps for both 1% and 5% thresholds
Generated for each year (2018-2024)
Automatically exports CSV files with county lists
Summary tables for the most recent year
6. Additional Features:
National trend analysis with interquartile range
Growth rate calculations
All outputs automatically saved to your specified directory
Professional formatting with table of contents
Comprehensive documentation
BTFP Analysis During the 2023 Banking Crisis
This analysis examines **who used the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP)** during the 2023 banking crisis and what determined that choice. Building on Jiang et al. (2024) Market-to-market (MTM) Loss, we test whether BTFP's unique **par valuation** feature attracted banks facing **insolvency risk** (not just liquidity risk).
**Key Hypotheses:**
1. Banks with higher insolvency risk AND more OMO-eligible assets preferentially chose BTFP
2. BTFP usage is driven more by insolvency concerns than pure liquidity needs
3. The interaction of run risk and OMO-eligible capacity predicts BTFP usage (Borrowing)
bbd_top_bottom_county
This code maps counties top 5/1 percentile and bottom 5/1 percentile by bbd usage
broadband_housing_project
Brad Band penetration map by county and year.
Summer Paper 2024
EPA and House data with an extended model incorporating GDP and Employment rate. These Data sets are the final version.
EPA_HousePrice_new
This analysis investigates the relationship between air quality (AQI) and housing prices (log-transformed) using county-level panel data. Initially, the study covers data from 2000 to 2022, utilizing both fixed and random effects models to control for unobserved heterogeneity across counties and time. The Hausman test was conducted to check for endogeneity, with results indicating the random effects model is consistent.
In a follow-up analysis, the model was re-run for the shorter period of 2017-2022, incorporating additional control variables such as GDP and the employment rate. The results provide a more focused look at recent years and the impact of these economic factors alongside AQI.
Wildfire Air Quality
Combined data wildfire aqi and house price.
AQI_Houseprice Trend
This document offers an analysis of how the air quality index (AQI) impacts housing prices across U.S. counties from 2000 to 2022. Using R, we refine our dataset to remove outliers, then apply linear and fixed effects regression models to understand AQI's influence on log-transformed housing prices, controlling for county and annual variations.