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 …

between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler (1989) maxmin with multiple priors framework to …

The failure of Lehman Brothers highlighted the severe lapses in risk management and regulatory oversight that brought … on and intensified the global financial crisis. This paper presents a structural credit risk model that provides useful … insufficient collateral compounded the effects of dangerously high leverage and resulted in undercapitalization and excessive risk …

' long-term leverage choices and an "interim" inefficiency because it distorts agents' short-term liquidity management. I …

provided liquidity against a range of assets during 2008-09. Dealers with lower equity returns and greater leverage prior to … liquidity in explaining dealer behavior. The results suggest that both financial performance and balance sheet liquidity play a …

liquidity in dollars kept traders from arbitraging away excess profits. Risk factors, instead, are mostly insignificant …. Liquidity factors involve intermediaries cutting back loans to arbitrageurs in order to shrink their balance sheet, and hoarding … liquidity to cover their own funding strains. In addition, it seems that arbitrageurs themselves had insufficient pledge …

of a freeze, inducing firms to hoard even more liquid assets. Liquidity panics provide a new rationale for stricter … liquidity requirements, as this policy alleviates the informational frictions in the banking sector and paradoxically can end up …

In this paper we introduce two measures, the Systemic Liquidity Buffer (SLB) and the Systemic Liquidity Shortfall (SLS …) to assess liquidity in the banking system. The SLB takes an aggregated perspective on liquidity risks in the banking … system. In contrast, the SLS focusses on the problematic banks which suffer a liquidity shortfall. These measures provide an …