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banks to have private information about the risk of their assets. We show how banks' asset risk affects funding liquidity in … state with adverse selection and elevated rates; and iii) market breakdown with liquidity hoarding. We provide an … of unsecured rates and excess reserves banks hold, as well as the inability of massive liquidity injections by central …
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incentives to credit insitutions to use actively the interbank market to manage their liquidity needs. In this context, we … their liquidity shocks. This paper specifically focuses on the speed of reversion of transaction costs and available depth … reported evidence points to time-varying liquidity adjustments and identifies liquidity, market activity and the institutional …
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We study the effect of counterparty risk on the ability of Italian banks to access the foreign unsecured interbank market during the sovereign debt crisis in the second half of 2011. With the onset of the crisis, interest rates in the Italian interbank market soared and foreign lending decreased...
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In this paper, we develop an agent-based multi-layered interbank network model based on a sample of large EU banks. The model allows for taking a more holistic approach to interbank contagion than is standard in the literature. A key finding of the paper is that there are material...
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Interconnectedness is an inherent feature of the modern financial system. While it con-tributes to efficiency of financial services, it also creates structural vulnerabilities: pernicious shock transmission and amplification impacting banks’ capitalization. This has recently been seen during...
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This paper tests the hypothesis of liquidity hoarding in the Italian banking system during the 2007-2011 global …' interventions are ineffective because banks hoard the liquidity injected rather than channelling it on to other banks and the real … the crisis, and, contrary to widespread conjecture, the liquidity injected by the Eurosystem was intermediated among banks …
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This paper investigates the impact of ample liquidity provision by the European Central Bank on the functioning of the … main euro area payment system. To identify exogenous shocks to central bank liquidity, we exploit the timing of ECB … liquidity operations and use a simple structural vector auto-regression framework. We argue that the ECB acted as a de …
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We present a two-country model with an enhanced banking sector featuring risky lending and cross-border interbank market frictions. We find that (i) the strength of the financial accelerator, when applied to banks operating under uncertainty in an interbank market, will critically depend on the...
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The paper studies the central bank collateral framework and its impact on banks’ liquidity under an adverse stress test … scenario. We construct a stress test model that accounts for a granular and multi-faceted representation of the liquidity of … Southern European countries. Results show that illiquidity can trigger insolvency and that liquidity adjustment can last …
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. Therefore, the analysis suggests that there is a lower bound for the amount of liquidity provided through short-term operations …
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