This paper studies the relationship between the arrival of potential investors and market liquidity in a search … discouraging new investors from entering (what we call the congestion effect). The equilibrium level of market liquidity depends on … find that diminishing trading costs in our market can impair liquidity and reduce welfare. -- Liquidity ; search …

We study liquidity and systemic risk in high-value payment systems. Flows in high-value systems are characterized by … comparative statics analyses on changes to the environment. We find that banks attempting to conserve liquidity cause an increase …

particular, we do not find that worse performing banks began hoarding liquidity and indiscriminately reducing their lending …. -- Fed funds ; financial crisis ; liquidity ; interbank lending ; hoarding …

This paper explores liquidity spillovers in market-capitalization-based portfolios of NYSE stocks. Return, volatility …, and liquidity dynamics across the small- and large-cap sectors are modeled by way of a vector autoregression model, using … data that spans more than 3,000 trading days. We find that volatility and liquidity innovations in one sector are …

more highly correlated; moreover, at these times, money supply positively affects financial market liquidity, albeit with a … lag of two weeks. During normal times, increases in mutual fund flows enhance stock market liquidity and trading volume …, but during financial crises, U.S. government bond funds see higher inflows, resulting in increased bond market liquidity …

This paper explores liquidity movements in stock and Treasury bond markets over a period of more than 1800 trading days …. Cross-market dynamics in liquidity are documented by estimating a vector autoregressive model for liquidity (that is, bid … in one market affects the spreads in both markets, and that return volatility is an important driver of liquidity …

In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We … investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial …