"We study the dynamics of liquidity provision by dealers during an asset market crash, described as a temporary negative shock to investors' aggregate asset demand. We consider a class of dynamic market settings where dealers can trade continuously with each other, while trading between dealers...

We develop a model of the market for federal funds that explicitly accounts for its two distinctive features: banks have to search for a suitable counterparty, and once they have met, both parties negotiate the size of the loan and the repayment. The theory is used to answer a number of positive...