Between July 2007 and the fall of 2008, the ECB responded to disruption in interbank markets by expanding its liquidity provision to commercial banks. 2. Between the fall of 2008 and end-2009, as the financial crisis escalated and turned from a liquidity crisis into a solvency crisis, the ECB lowered its policy rate in quick steps to an unprecedentedly low level.
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