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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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cross-border borrowing. Our findings document the severe malfunctioning of the market for liquidity caused by asymmetric …
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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605172
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 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 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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This paper investigates the effects of interbank rate uncertainty on lending rates to euro area firms. We introduce a novel measure of interbank rate uncertainty, computed as the cross-sectional dispersion in interbank market rates on overnight unsecured loans. Using proprietary bank-level data,...
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We study the functioning of secured and unsecured inter-bank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...
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