Exposure to liquidity risk makes banks vulnerable to runs from both depositors and from wholesale, short-term investors …

liquidity and the growth slowdown in the financial centers are at their core. These global shocks trigger longer default spells …

panics or ex ante contractual links between banks, we argue bank failures can shrink the common pool of liquidity, creating … or exacerbating aggregate liquidity shortages. This could lead to a contagion of failures and a possible total meltdown …, liquidity problems and solvency problems interact and can cause each other, making it hard to determine the root cause of a …

funds act as liquidity providers. Hedge funds using Lehman as prime broker could not trade after the bankruptcy, and these …-connected hedge funds in turn experienced greater declines in market liquidity following the bankruptcy than other stocks; and, the … effect was larger for ex ante illiquid stocks. We conclude that shocks to traders' funding liquidity reduce the market …

more than long-term credit. Firms responded by cutting their short-term loans for liquidity management purposes and …, firms increase cash and cut investment. Thus, trade credit offers a substitute source of liquidity that can insulate some … firms from bank liquidity shocks …

We consider a model of liquidity demand arising from a possible maturity mismatch between asset revenues and … consumption. This liquidity demand can be met with either cash reserves (inside liquidity) or via asset sales for cash (outside … liquidity). The question we address is, what determines the mix of inside and outside liquidity in equilibrium? An important …

Banks can fail either because they are insolvent or because an aggregate shortage of liquidity can render them … insolvent. We show that bank failures can themselves cause liquidity shortages. The failure of some banks can then lead to a … links between banks but because bank failure could lead to a contraction in the common pool of liquidity. There is a …