-09 financial crisis is often attributed to corporate bond dealers shedding off their inventory, right when liquidity was scarce …, including proprietary trading desks in investment banks, provided liquidity in response to the large selling by clients …. Corporate bond inventory of dealers rose sharply as a result. Although providing liquidity, limits to arbitrage, possibly in the …

provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09. Dealers with lower equity returns and greater leverage prior to … liquidity in explaining dealer behavior. The results suggest that both financial performance and balance sheet liquidity play a …

sensitivity of these strains to risk sentiment deterioration. Cross-border flows through banks for excess liquidity support … facilities leaves longer-term patterns of cross-border liquidity and capital flows broadly unchanged. While official sector … liquidity hoarding and “dash for cash” activity are expected to be lower with access to these facilities, initial evidence does …

and liquidity has increased since the late 1990s, and to a lesser extent because economic growth has slowed. We reach this …

illiquid assets or underprovision of liquidity. We investigate whether imperfect competition (Cournot) improves welfare through … internalizing the externality and find that this is far from guaranteed. In a standard model of liquidity shocks, when liquidity is … sufficiently scarce, Cournot competition leads to even less liquidity than the Walrasian equilibrium. In a standard model of …

disrupting the liquidity or stability of mortgage secondary markets. In the process, the programs have created a new financial … market for pricing and trading mortgage credit risk, which has grown in size and liquidity over time. The CRT programs …