liquidity is inefficient. The reason is that liquidity affects prices and the welfare of others, and creators do not internalize … government must restrict the creation of liquidity by the private sector. …

During the recent financial crisis, central banks have provided liquidity and governments have set up rescue programmes … bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity and monitors too little. A … central bank can alleviate the liquidity problem, but induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce an additional authority …

system: international liquidity and exchange rate management. Despite radical changes since World War II in the market … context for liquidity and exchange rate concerns, they remain central to discussions of international macroeconomic policy … coordination. To take two prominent examples of specific (and related) coordination problems, liquidity issues are paramount in …

Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The … liquidity insurer is not one of the passive recipient, but of an active seeker, of deposits. We find that banks facing a funding … liquidity demand shocks (as measured by their unused commitments, wholesale funding dependence, and limited liquid assets), as …

paper evaluates the impact of dark trading and fragmentation in visible order books on liquidity. We consider global … liquidity by consolidating the limit order books of all visible trading venues, and local liquidity by considering the … traditional market only. We find that fragmentation in visible order books improves global liquidity, whereas dark trading has a …