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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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This paper explores how international money markets reflected credit and liquidity risks during the global financial … markets, while liquidity risk caused the difference across the currency denominations. They also support the view that a … shortage of US dollar as liquidity distorted the international money markets during the crisis. We find that coordinated …
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Bank liquid asset holdings vary significantly across banks and through time. The determinants of liquid asset holdings from the corporate finance literature are not useful to predict banks' liquid asset holdings. Banks have an investment motive to hold liquid assets, so that when their lending...
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We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and present bias (Amador, Werning, and Angeletos 2006). The government chooses mandatory contributions to respective spending/savings accounts, each with a different pre-retirement...
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market liquidity and shorter debt maturity can exacerbate this externality and cause costly firm bankruptcy at higher … fundamental thresholds. Our model provides implications on liquidity-spillover effects, the flight-to-quality phenomenon, and …
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monitor markets continuously. We study how limit order markets absorb transient liquidity shocks, which occur when a …
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This paper provide a large-deviations approximation of the tail distribution of total financial losses on a portfolio consisting of many positions. Applications include the total default losses on a bank portfolio, or the total claims against an insurer. The results may be useful in allocating...
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Extreme market outcomes are often followed by a lack of liquidity and a lack of trade. This market collapse seems …-returns distribution. To explore the connection of uncertainty with liquidity, we specify a simple market where a monopolist financial … increase the bid-ask spread and, hence, reduces liquidity. In addition, 'hedge portfolios'' for the market-maker, an important …
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This paper studies a model where money is valued for the liquidity services it provides in the future. These liquidity … services cannot be provided by any other asset. Changes in expectations of the value of future liquidity services affect the …. Furthermore, shifts between money and other assets that are driven by precautionary liquidity demand make nominal interest rates …
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This paper investigates the consequences of liquidation and reorganization on the allocation and subsequent utilization of assets in bankruptcy. Using the random assignment of judges to bankruptcy cases as a natural experiment that forces some firms into liquidation, we find that the long-run...
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