We discuss the notion of liquidity and liquidity risk within the financial system. We distinguish between three … different liquidity types, central bank liquidity, funding and market liquidity and their relevant risks. In order to understand … the workings of financial system liquidity, as well as the role of the central bank, we bring together relevant literature …

uncertainty regarding their liquidity needs. This paper examines the efficiency of the interbank lending market in allocating … funds and the optimal policy of a central bank in response to liquidity shocks. We show that, when confronted with a … distributional liquidity-shock crisis that causes a large disparity in the liquidity held by different banks, a central bank should …

Money markets have two functions, the allocation of liquidity and the processing of information. We develop a model … that due to its size, a large bank receives a more precise signal about the overall liquidity development in the banking … sector. In an upcoming liquidity shortage this large bank can exploit its informational advantage in the spot money market by …

Liquidity plays an important role in explaining how banks determine their allocation of funds. This paper analyses … liquidity in a manner similar to that used to study household need for liquidity, namely, by using a cash-in-advance type model … maintained hypothesis concerning the liquidity premium and default risk premium. This paper confirms the finding that monetary …

insure consumers against privately observed liquidity shocks. Asset market investments insure consumers against losses from … bank runs. If the probability of a run is small, then banks specialize fully into the provision of liquidity insurance …: They provide a higher degree of liquidity insurance when compared to the economy with banks alone. If the probability of a …