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funds act as liquidity providers. Hedge funds using Lehman as prime broker could not trade after the bankruptcy, and these …-connected hedge funds in turn experienced greater declines in market liquidity following the bankruptcy than other stocks; and, the … effect was larger for ex ante illiquid stocks. We conclude that shocks to traders' funding liquidity reduce the market …
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How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...
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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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We build a model of financial sector illiquidity in an open economy. Illiquidity defined as a situation in which a country's consolidated financial system has potential short-term obligations in foreign currency that exceed the amount of foreign currency it can have access to on short notice can...
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This paper deals with the relations among international liquidity,the exchange-rate regime and the effectiveness of … provision of liquidity …
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economy-wide sales of external assets. Consistent with our theory, we find that the predicted liquidity shock has a strong … liquidity shocks, the liquidation price they can get will be lower when buyers know that they have more information on … expectation of future liquidity problems export relatively more FPI than FDI, and (2) this effect strengthens as the source …
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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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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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allows banks in different regions to smooth local liquidity shocks by borrowing and lending on a world interbank market. We … show under which conditions financial integration induces banks to reduce their liquidity holdings and to shift their … portfolios towards more profitable but less liquid investments. Integration helps reallocate liquidity when different banks are …
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