empirically test the predictions of a new signalling model that offers a rationale for offering two different liquidity facilities … risky than banks that accessed the DW. Our results can contribute to a better design of liquidity facilities during a …

buyers through partial retention of assets if and only if their liquidity holdings are large. However, when sellers … their liquidity holdings are small. The model is extended to study the implications for discount window lending and …

schemes affect liquidity provision and asset prices. Investors face a trade-off between risk and return. At the benefit of a … liquidity provision to force traders to trade at a lower price. By contrast, bonus caps make traders value the asset less than … investors. This should encourage liquidity provision and decrease prices. In contrast to these predictions, we find that under …