Fuhrer, Lucas Marc; Müller, Benjamin; Steiner, Luzian - 2016
What is the added value of a security which qualifies as a "high-quality liquid asset" (HQLA) under the Basel III … (2013), call it HQLA premium. To do so, we exploit the introduction of the LCR in Switzerland as a unique quasi …-natural experiment and we find evidence for the existence of an HQLA premium in the order of 4 basis points. Guided by theoretical …