We study how banks' capital level affects the extent to which they engage in liquidity transformation. We first …-ons. We find that banks engage in less liquidity transformation when their capital increases, which suggests that capital and … liquidity requirements are at least to some extent substitutes. We also find that this substitution is mostly driven by small …

The convention in calculating trading costs in corporate bond markets is to assume that dealers provide liquidity to … provide liquidity in corporate bond markets, and thus, average bid-ask spreads underestimate trading costs that customers … demanding liquidity pay. Compared with periods before the 2008 financial crisis, substantial amounts of liquidity provision have …

I revisit the Diamond-Dybvig model of liquidity insurance in the presence of hidden trades. The key result is that in … this environment deposit-taking banks are not necessary for the efficient provision of liquidity. Mutual funds are … constrained efficient when supplemented with the same government liquidity regulation that is required to make a banking system …

Under Basel III rules, banks become subject to a liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) from 2015 onwards, to promote short …-term resilience. We investigate the effects of such liquidity regulation on bank liquid assets and liabilities. Results indicate co …-integration of liquid assets and liabilities, to maintain a minimum short-term liquidity buffer. Still, microprudential regulation …

This study investigates the amount of liquidity that is necessary to settle a given network of financial obligations … a flow network technique to investigate how the interconnected feature could affect the required liquidity. Our main … fundamental perspective of how a hub or other network structures affect the required liquidity. We further investigate the …

crisis of past decades. Liquidity risks usually occur as a consequence of other kinds of risks, hence analysing scenarios in … funding costs are appropriate. The structural liquidity risk and the degree of the liquidity mismatch can be measured based on … the liquidity gap analysis, where expected cash-in- and outflows, divided in different time-buckets are depicted. The …

In this paper we introduce two measures, the Systemic Liquidity Buffer (SLB) and the Systemic Liquidity Shortfall (SLS …) to assess liquidity in the banking system. The SLB takes an aggregated perspective on liquidity risks in the banking … system. In contrast, the SLS focusses on the problematic banks which suffer a liquidity shortfall. These measures provide an …

We analyze the pledging behavior of Euro area banks during the introduction of the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR). The … national liquidity requirements to proxy for banks' incentives to exploit this differential treatment of central bank eligible … national liquidity requirement pledge more and less liquid collateral than banks with a preceding national liquidity …