We analyze how bank management sentiment affects liquidity hoarding. Our newly-created sentiment measure derives bank manager sentiment from language in banks' annual reports (10-Ks). We find banks with more negative management sentiment hoard liquidity beyond what is warranted by their own...

We examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank liquidity hoarding. We create a comprehensive measure of bank liquidity hoarding that takes into account asset-, liability-, and off-balance sheet activities. Using over one million bank-quarter observations, we find that in...