We develop a model in which financial intermediaries hold liquidity to protect themselves from shocks. Depending on … parameter values, banks may choose to hold too much or too little liquidity on aggregate compared with the socially optimal … underinsurance against liquidity choice. The model therefore provides a unified framework for thinking, on the one hand, about policy …

regulatory liquidity requirements on bank behavior. A multi-stage decision situation allows for considering the interaction … between credit risk and liquidity risk of banks. This interaction is found to make a risk neutral bank behave as if it were … risk averse in an environment where there is no interbank market and liquidity regulation. Introducing a buoyant interbank …

persistence of liquidity shocks. Following a theory of long-term interbank funding a financial system which is modeled as a micro … policy and therefore ultimately the real economy. In particular, it facilitates banks' liquidity management. This paper aims … at extending the literature which views interbank markets as mutual liquidity insurance mechanism by taking into account …

We examine the system-wide effects of liquidity regulation on banks’ balance sheets. In the general equilibrium model … value before maturity, e.g., structured securities. By improving the liquidity of interbank markets, tighter liquidity … requirements induce banks to invest in such complex assets. We evaluate the welfare properties of combining liquidity regulation …

network. We first provide a characterization of the unique equilibrium of banks' liquidity holdings for any network of credit … aggregate liquidity holdings. This incurs an implicit cost, since these funds could be invested in the more productive illiquid …