liquidity, especially for stocks with small market capitalization, high volatility and no listed options; (ii) slowed down price …

, liquidity, and asset prices. Arbitrageurs exploit price discrepancies between assets traded in segmented markets, and in doing … so provide liquidity to investors. A collateral constraint limits their positions as a function of capital. We show that … markets, liquidity in each market generally becomes less volatile, but the reverse may hold for aggregate liquidity because of …

leveraged banks’ precautionary demand for liquidity. When adverse asset shocks materialize, a bank’s ability to roll over debt … is impaired because of agency problems associated with high leverage. In turn, a bank’s propensity to hoard liquidity is …

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 …

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 …

liquidity until their collapse. An official report (SIC, 2010) has, however, exposed severe weaknesses in the banks’ assets and … borrowers, while they should have been deleveraging and securing their liquidity positions in foreign currency. The banks also … before the collapse of October 2008 the banks all reported strong liquidity positions. These reports were misleading, but we …

We analyze the impact of financial crises and monetary policy on the supply of wholesale funding liquidity, and also on … on interbank access and volume is stronger than on spreads. Liquidity supply restrictions are exacerbated for cross … dispersion substantially decreases when the Eurosystem promises unlimited access to liquidity at a fixed price in October 2008 …