liquidity tightened after the Lehman collapse but there is no evidence of fire sales in the German banking sector. Instead, we … observe a broad-based flight to liquidity. The European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy had a strong impact on … banks' trading behavior by inducing shifts towards eligible securities and reducing pressure on market liquidity. This …

area. In a structural VAR, we identify a liquidity shock rooted in the interbank market and use its impulse response … Gertler and Kiyotaki (2010). We highlight two main results. First, an identified liquidity shock causes a sizable and … in 2008–09. Second, the liquidity injected in the market by the ECB played an important role in attenuating the …

In times of financial distress, central banks provide unlimited liquidity to avoid fire sales. In response, banks raise … investigate how unlimited liquidity provision affects collateral prices. Also, I match banks' trades with their balance sheet and … show how funding liquidity impacts premia payment. I quantify the Fire Buy premium to be 15.6 bps; and the Risk …