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Liquidity shocks are a core risk of the business model of commercial banks, which is founded on a liquidity mismatch … banks alone, this article turns to examine three regulatory strategies for reducing the incidence of liquidity shocks or … making banks more resilient to them. They are: regulating the level of banks' liquidity reserves, insuring the value of the …
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Bank liability guarantee schemes have traditionally been viewed as costless measures to shore up investor confidence and stave off bank runs. However, as the experiences of some European countries, most notably Ireland, have demonstrated, the credibility and effectiveness of these guarantees is...
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This paper contributes to literature on bank distress using the Swedish experience of the international crisis of 1907, often paralleled with 2008. By employing previously unanalyzed bank-level data, we use logit regressions and principal component analysis to measure the impact of pre-crisis...
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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 …
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We study systemic illiquidity using a unique dataset on banks' daily cash flows, short-term interbank funding and liquid asset buffers. Failure to roll-over short-term funding or repay obligations when they fall due generates an externality in the form of systemic illiquidity. We simulate a...
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This paper analyses the impact of different treatments of government bonds in bank liquidity regulation on financial … stability. Using a theoretical model, we show that a sudden increase in sovereign default risk may lead to liquidity issues in … the banking sector, implying the insolvency of a significant number of banks. Liquidity requirements do not contribute to …
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monetary policy operations. In turn, Greek banks turned to Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) to meet their funding needs …
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We examine the effect of liquidity imbalances on liquidity risk using 224 bank exits from interbank markets between … liquidity, especially when net placers exit an interbank market. Moreover, we also show that banks try to improve their position … by selling the most liquid assets, which due to the limited capital on the market leads to a liquidity crunch. Finally …
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liquidity tightened after the Lehman collapse but there is no evidence of fire sales in the German banking sector. Instead, we … observe a broad-based flight to liquidity. The European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy had a strong impact on … banks' trading behavior by inducing shifts towards eligible securities and reducing pressure on market liquidity. This …
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engage in fractional reserve banking and they do not perform liquidity creation. Money market funds, like other capital …
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