rationed when they attempt to borrow in order to meet liquidity shocks. The rationed firms can optimally pledge cash as …-in-the-market pricing and depends on the entire distribution of liquidity shocks in the economy. As moral hazard intensity varies … market and funding liquidity and deep discounts observed in prices during crises that follow good times. …

a novel dataset, we document that this sell-off appears to have generated significant liquidity risk for market … actual downgrade and reversing sharply thereafter. We show that a measure of liquidity risk faced by corporate bond market … portion of this excess co-movement. Additional robustness checks suggest that this relationship between the liquidity risk …

Agency problems are an important determinant of corporate liquidity. For a sample of more than 11,000 firms from 45 … that generally drive the need for liquidity, such as investment opportunities and asymmetric information, actually become …

channel, we perform an empirical analysis of Russian bank liquidity in 1994 on the basis of bank data. The paper concludes … that the huge excess reserves of Russian banks in 1994 were at least partially due to excess liquidity in the banking … system. This means that banks preferred to hold liquidity rather than to grant loans. The hypothesis that the credit crunch …

leveraged banks’ precautionary demand for liquidity. When adverse asset shocks materialize, a bank’s ability to roll over debt … is impaired because of agency problems associated with high leverage. In turn, a bank’s propensity to hoard liquidity is …

liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree … of transparency is inefficiently low if the social value of secondary market liquidity exceeds its private value. We … analyze various types of public intervention — mandatory transparency standards, provision of liquidity to distressed banks or …

they must deliver the asset they borrowed. That asset enjoys greater liquidity, measured by search times, and a higher … lending fee ('specialness'). Liquidity and specialness translate into price premia that are consistent with no-arbitrage. We …