This paper studies the optimal maturity structure for government debt when markets for liquidity insurance are … in short and long maturities solves a liquidity insurance problem, but optimal yield curve policy is only possible if …

explains why liquidity cannot easily be apprehended through a single statistics, and asks whether liquidity should be regulated … containment. Finally, the paper takes a macroeconomic perspective, discusses shortages of aggregate liquidity and analyses how … market value accounting and capital adequacy should react to asset prices. It concludes with a topical form of liquidity …