It has been argued in the literature that emergency liquidity injections should be conducted preferably in the form of … open market operations. As we show in the present paper, this is not necessarily the case when liquidity may be …, targeted liquidity assistance may become strictly superior. The analysis might have a bearing on recent developments in the …

This paper studies the choice between building liquidity buffers and raising funding ex post, to deal with liquidity … shocks. We uncover the possibility of an inefficient liquidity squeeze equilibrium. Agents typically choose to build smaller … liquidity buffers when they expect cheap funding. However, when agents hold smaller liquidity buffers, they can raise less …

financial institutions to market participants. In particular, we analyze liquidity and volatility premia on the French …; in the other, which we dub the unconventional regime, monetary policy operations lead to volatility and liquidity premia …

We examine the effects of collateral provision as a potential channel between funding liquidity tensions and the … scarcity of market liquidity. This channel consists in transferring the credit risk associated with refinancing operations … between financial institutions to market participants that bear new liquidity risk on the market associated with collateral …