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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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incentives to credit insitutions to use actively the interbank market to manage their liquidity needs. In this context, we … their liquidity shocks. This paper specifically focuses on the speed of reversion of transaction costs and available depth … reported evidence points to time-varying liquidity adjustments and identifies liquidity, market activity and the institutional …
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The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks’ liquidity under an adverse stress test … scenario. We construct a stress test model that accounts for a granular and multi-faceted representation of the liquidity of … Southern European countries. Results show that illiquidity can trigger insolvency and that liquidity adjustment can last …
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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 tests the hypothesis of liquidity hoarding in the Italian banking system during the 2007-2011 global …' interventions are ineffective because banks hoard the liquidity injected rather than channelling it on to other banks and the real … the crisis, and, contrary to widespread conjecture, the liquidity injected by the Eurosystem was intermediated among banks …
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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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We present a two-country model with an enhanced banking sector featuring risky lending and cross-border interbank market frictions. We find that (i) the strength of the financial accelerator, when applied to banks operating under uncertainty in an interbank market, will critically depend on the...
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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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' funding structures jointly with that in their excess liquidity holdings. We find evidence that banks highly exposed to the …, importantly, the explicit consideration of the role of excess liquidity in our analysis …
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