Banks hold liquid and illiquid assets. An illiquid bank that receives a liquidity shock sells assets to liquid banks in … the market equilibrium is constrained inefficient, with too little liquidity and inefficient hoarding. Our model features … a precautionary as well as a speculative motive for hoarding liquidity, but the inefficiency of liquidity provision can …

’s interventions during different stages of the crisis in terms of this literature. We interpret the Fed’s early-stage liquidity … periods of high liquidity risk. In contrast, reductions in the Fed’s liquidity supply in 2009 did not increase the spread. Our … analysis has implications for the impact on asset prices of a potential withdrawal of liquidity supply by the Fed. -- Financial …

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 …

, liquidity management, and synergy improvements that reduce risk. The outcomes of such trade-offs may depend on bank governance … geographic scope tend to provide diversification gains and reduce idiosyncratic and liquidity risks while also increasing BHCs … this type of complexity, leading to a decrease in systemic risk and an increase in liquidity risk among BHCs. While bank …

Pierret (2015) presents empirical analysis of the solvency-liquidity nexus for the banking system, documenting that a …-causes higher solvency risk. These results point toward a tight interaction between solvency and liquidity risk over time. My …