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The convention in calculating trading costs in corporate bond markets is to assume that dealers provide liquidity to … provide liquidity in corporate bond markets, and thus, average bid-ask spreads underestimate trading costs that customers … demanding liquidity pay. Compared with periods before the 2008 financial crisis, substantial amounts of liquidity provision have …
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We construct a new measure of mortgage credit availability that describes the maximum amount obtainable by a borrower of given characteristics. We estimate this "loan frontier" using mortgage originations data from 2001 to 2014 and show that it reflects a binding borrowing constraint. Our...
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The Lehman Brothers' 2008 bankruptcy spread losses to its counterparties even when Lehman was a lender of cash, because collateral for that lending was tied up in the bankruptcy process. I study the implications of such lender default using a general equilibrium network model featuring...
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changes carries important information about liquidity demand in the market. From this distribution of trader position …-changes, we construct a marketwide measure for intraday liquidity demand that does not necessarily depend on aggressive trading …. Using a rich regulatory dataset on S&P 500 E-mini futures and 10-year Treasury futures markets, we show that this liquidity …
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We present a dynamic structural model of subprime adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers making payment decisions taking into account possible consequences of different degrees of delinquency from their lenders. We empirically implement the model using unique data sets that contain information...
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As a result of legal restrictions on branch banking, an extensive interbank system developed in the United States … during the 19th century to facilitate interregional payments and flows of liquidity and credit. Vast sums moved through the … interbank system to meet seasonal and other demands, but the system also transmitted shocks during banking panics. The Federal …
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We investigate how liquidity regulations affect banks by examining a dormant monetary policy tool that functions as a … liquidity regulation. Our identification strategy uses a regression kink design that relies on the variation in a marginal high … credit supply. Liquidity requirements also depress banks' profitability, though some of the regulatory costs are passed on to …
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We modify the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model of banking to jointly study various regulations in the presence of credit … as to provide liquidity and risk-sharing services to the real economy. Our modifications create wedges in the asset and … joint implementation of a capital and a liquidity regulation …
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This paper examines the optimal design of and interaction between capital and liquidity regulations in a model … characterized by fire sale externalities. In the model, banks can insure against potential liquidity shocks by hoarding sufficient … precautionary liquid assets. However, it is never optimal to fully insure, so realized liquidity shocks trigger an asset fire sale …
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