Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing …, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback … between lender of last resort policy and incentives of private banks, determining the aggregate amount of liquidity available …

pure illiquidity risk. It is shown that, when bad states are highly unlikely, public provision of liquidity may improve the … an incentive of financial intermediaries to free ride on liquidity in good states, resulting in excessively low liquidity … more liquid investment. In that case, liquidity injection will make the free riding problem even worse. The results show …