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We identify frictions in the market for liquidity as well as bank-specific and market-wide factors that affect the … prices that banks pay for liquidity, captured here by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank and benchmarked by the … liquidity. We find that the price a bank pays for liquidity depends on the liquidity positions of other banks, as well as its …
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This paper develops a tractable general equilibrium model in which money markets provide structural funding to some banks. When bank default risk becomes significant, retail deposit insurance creates an asymmetry between banks that operate in savings-rich regions, which can remain financed at...
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suggests that the contraction in repo led dealers to take defensive actions, given their own capital and liquidity problems …
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between generalized financial crises on the one hand and isolated bank failures, debt defaults and foreign-exchange market … disturbances on the other. We represent this distinction in three sets of linkages: between debt defaults and bank failures …; between exchange-market disturbances and debt defaults; and between exchange-market disturbances and bank failures. In both …
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This paper surveys the literature on the geography of financial activity in order to assess the role of financial centres. While there is widespread concern that rapid technological progess especially in communication and information technologies will ultimately lead to a delocalization of...
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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 …
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The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite … empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the findings highlight the diversity of the transmission process. While liquidity …
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compares the Federal Reserve’s actions with the literature on optimal policy in a liquidity trap. This comparison suggests that …
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banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks' asset risk affects funding liquidity in … state with adverse selection and elevated rates; and iii) market breakdown with liquidity hoarding. We provide an … of unsecured rates and excess reserves banks hold, as well as the inability of massive liquidity injections by central …
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This paper examines the extent to which individual investors provide liquidity to the stock market, and whether they … predict short-term future returns is significantly enhanced during times of market stress, when market liquidity provisions … uncertainty. Despite this high aggregate performance, individual investors do not reap the rewards from liquidity provision …
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