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provide more secured loans to replace unsecured lending, which is not consistent with speculative or precautionary liquidity …
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Interbank contagion has become a buzzword in the aftermath of the financial crisis that led to a series of shocks to the interbank market and to periods of pronounced market disruptions. However, little is known about how interbank networks are formed and about their sensitivity to changes in...
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Interconnectedness is an inherent feature of the modern financial system. While it con-tributes to efficiency of financial services, it also creates structural vulnerabilities: pernicious shock transmission and amplification impacting banks’ capitalization. This has recently been seen during...
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This paper investigates the impact of ample liquidity provision by the European Central Bank on the functioning of the … main euro area payment system. To identify exogenous shocks to central bank liquidity, we exploit the timing of ECB … liquidity operations and use a simple structural vector auto-regression framework. We argue that the ECB acted as a de …
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This study documents significant differences in the interbank market lending and borrowing levels across countries. We argue that the existing differences in interbank market usage can be explained by the trust of the market participants in the stability of the country's banking sector and...
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Under Basel III rules, banks become subject to a liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) from 2015 onwards, to promote short …-term resilience. We investigate the effects of such liquidity regulation on bank liquid assets and liabilities. Results indicate co …-integration of liquid assets and liabilities, to maintain a minimum short-term liquidity buffer. Still, microprudential regulation …
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I study a model of market-liquidity provision by levered intermediaries that, besides operating trading desks, run … deposit-taking franchises. Levered intermediaries’ heightened incentive to absorb risk helps to counteract liquidity …. However, liquidity provision may also overshoot, leading to unhealthy price bubbles and causing asset origination to become …
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This paper discusses liquidity regulation when short-term funding enables credit growth but generates negative systemic … containing risk and preserving credit quality, while quantity-based fundingratios are distorsionary. Liquidity buffers are either … overconfidence), excess credit and liquidity risk are best controlled with net fundingratios. Taxes on short-term funding emerge …
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We examine the relation between capital and liquidity creation. This issue is interesting because of the potential … impact on liquidity creation from tighter capital requirements such as those in Basel III. We perform Granger-causality tests … from 2000 to 2010. We observe a strong expansion in liquidity creation until the financial crisis that was mainly driven by …
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' funding liquidity and solvency. Both asset liquidity and central bank haircuts are modelled as power functions within the unit … interval. Funding stability is captured as strategic bank run game in pure strategies between depositors. Asset liquidity, the … bank collateral and why a sudden non-anticipated reduction of asset liquidity, or a tightening of the collateral framework …
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