Both investors and borrowers are concerned about liquidity. Investors desire liquidity because they are uncertain about … when they will want to eliminate their holding of a financial asset. Borrowers are concerned about liquidity because they … compensation for the illiquidity investors will be subject to. We argue that banks can resolve these liquidity problems that arise …

compares the Federal Reserve's actions with the literature on optimal policy in a liquidity trap. The theory suggests that, to … securities markets can restore liquidity with fewer government funds than extending credit to the originators of loans …

We examine how liquidity and asset prices are affected by the following market imperfections: asymmetric information …

This paper presents an equilibrium model for the demand and supply of liquidity and its impact on asset prices and … liquidity and large price deviations from fundamentals. Moreover, market forces fail to lead to efficient supply of liquidity … efficiency consequences. For example, lowering the cost of supplying liquidity on the spot (e.g., through direct injection of …

In this paper, we develop an equilibrium model for stock market liquidity and its impact on asset prices when constant … prevents them from synchronizing their trades and hence gives rise to endogenous order imbalances and the need for liquidity …. Moreover, the endogenous liquidity need, when it occurs, is characterized by excessive selling of significant magnitudes. Such …

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 …

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 …

We propose a broad measure of liquidity for the overall financial market by exploiting its connection with the amount … more "noise.'' As such, noise in the Treasury market can be informative and we expect this information about liquidity to … -- high liquidity and low credit risk. Indeed, we find that our "noise'' measure captures episodes of liquidity crises of …