We study the interbank lending and asset sales markets in which banks with surplus liquidity have market power, frictions arise in lending due to moral hazard, and assets are bank-specific. Illiquid banks have weak outside options that allow surplus banks to ration lending, resulting in...

We study liquidity transfers between banks through the interbank borrowing and asset sale markets when, (i) surplus banks providingliquidity have market power, ii) there are frictions in the lendingmarket due to moral hazard, and, (iii) assets are bank-specific. We show that when the outside...

As the number of bank failures increases, the set of assets available for acquisition by the surviving banks enlarges but the total amount of available liquidity within the surviving banks falls. This results in 'cash-in-the-market' pricing for liquidation of banking assets. At a sufficiently...