This paper proposes a positive theory of the links between banks' capitalisation and their liquidity risk taking, the … extent of fire-sale problems, and the severity of liquidity crises. In a basic framework with a single bank, we find that … banks' incentives to hold liquidity for precautionary reasons are increasing with their capital. In a continuum …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the influence of financial system liquidity and corporate leverage on a firm … traditional role as a managerial control mechanism. Instead, the supply of systemic liquidity results in corporate leverage …, our results show a significant and positive relationship between corporate leverage and overinvestment when the liquidity …