This paper shows that strategies in, and reliance on the payments system as well as special liquidity-supplying tools provided by the central bank are important indicators of distress of individual banks. We conclude that central banks can benefit from using high-frequency data on liquidity...

Leveraging the fact that in many primary debt issuance markets securities of varying maturities are sold simultaneously, we recover participants' full demand systems by generalizing methods for estimating individual demands from bidding data. The estimated preference parameters allow us to...