This paper examines whether banks' liquidity and maturity mismatch decisions are affected by the choices of competitors … and the impact of these coordinated funding liquidity policies on financial stability. Using a novel identification … strategy where interactions are structured through decision networks, I show that banks do consider their peers' liquidity …

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 …

We study the design of lender of last resort interventions and show that the provision of long-term liquidity …-term domestic government bonds that could be pledged to obtain central bank liquidity. This "collateral trade" effect is large, as …