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number of occasionally binding constraints. The interactions between these constraints - in particular leverage and liquidity …. If the liquidity constraint is very tight, the leverage constraint may turn slack. In this case, there are large declines …
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We study how banks manage their liquidity among the various assets at their disposal. We exploit the introduction of … assets over time. Our results imply that frictions in one market for liquidity can spill over to several markets. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between central bank (reverse) auctions and bill market liquidity. The …
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This paper investigates the efficiency of various monetary policy instruments to stabilize asset prices in a liquidity … dynamics. Increasing the supply of reserves reduces liquidity risk in the traditional banking sector, but fails to reach the …
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This paper investigates the effects of interbank rate uncertainty on lending rates to euro area firms. We introduce a novel measure of interbank rate uncertainty, computed as the cross-sectional dispersion in interbank market rates on overnight unsecured loans. Using proprietary bank-level data,...
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Interconnectedness is an inherent feature of the modern financial system. While it contributes to efficiency of financial services, it also creates structural vulnerabilities: pernicious shock transmission and amplification impacting banks' capitalization. This has recently been seen during the...
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explains the link between the liquidity premium and spreads. We present a theory of endogenous bank fragility arising from a … coordination friction among bank creditors. The theory's implications reduce to a single constraint on banks, which is embedded in …. This drives up both credit spreads and the liquidity premium. By mitigating the coordination friction, expansions of public …
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modelling framework could be used both as a crisis management tool to help inform decisions on capital/liquidity infusions in …
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We present a two-country model with an enhanced banking sector featuring risky lending and cross-border interbank market frictions. We find that (i) the strength of the financial accelerator, when applied to banks operating under uncertainty in an interbank market, will critically depend on the...
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We analyze the pledging behavior of Euro area banks during the introduction of the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR). The … national liquidity requirements to proxy for banks' incentives to exploit this differential treatment of central bank eligible … national liquidity requirement pledge more and less liquid collateral than banks with a preceding national liquidity …
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