Klimenko, Nataliya; Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago - 2015
Making use of a structural model that allows for optimal liquidity management, we study the role that repos play in a … by a combination of repos, long–term debt, deposits and equity. Repos are a cheap source of funding, but they are subject … to an exogenous rollover risk. We show that the use of repos inflicts two types of indirect (“shadow”) costs on the bank …