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in modern monetary and financial systems, namely central bank collateral frameworks. Their importance can be understood …, not defined in a market, but by the collateral frameworks and interest rate policies of central banks. Using the … collateral framework of the Eurosystem as a basis of illustration and case study, the paper brings to light the functioning …
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A standard repurchase agreement between two counterparties is considered to examine the endogenous choice of collateral … assets, the feasibility of secured lending, and welfare implications of the central bank’s collateral framework. As an …
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The industrial organization approach to banking is extended to analyze the effects of interbank market activity and … risk averse in an environment where there is no interbank market and liquidity regulation. Introducing a buoyant interbank … separating effect of interbank money markets and recreate endogenous risk aversion of banks. …
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from trading assets for cash. -- interbank market ; fire sale …
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We present a model of banks' liquidity management where banks choose a portfolio of liquid and illiquid assets, and later on decide to lend or hoard liquidity. Ex ante, banks choose whether to be "liquid", by holding both liquid and illiquid assets, or "illiquid", by holding only illiquid...
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The crisis of 2007-2009 has shown that financial market turbulence can lead to huge funding liquidity problems for banks. This paper provides empirical evidence on banks' responses to wholesale funding shocks, using data of seventeen of the largest Dutch banks over the period January 2004 to...
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We analyze the question whether and when access to refinancing via repurchase agreements as opposed to asset liquidation increases efficiency to financial intermediators ('banks'). By pledging assets in form of a repo contract the bank can raise cash, by this preventing to forgo returns on sold...
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To avoid illiquidity spillovers and basis risk in swaps, interbank lenders are especially cautious about whether … interbank borrowers can meet their claims. This paper is about examining whether the incentive of interbank lenders to penalize … risky borrowers can reduce the liquidity risk-taking of borrowers. We find that interbank borrowers, especially small and …
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Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in exchange for cash. We characterize the constrained efficient allocation as the solution to a planner's problem and show that the market equilibrium is constrained inefficient,...
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Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in exchange for cash. We characterize the constrained efficient allocation as the solution to a planner's problem and show that the market equilibrium is constrained inefficient,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893168