We study a novel mechanism through which systemic risk, in the form of self-fulfilling runs, forces the banks to hoard liquidity. To this end, we develop an environment where banks offer insurance to their depositors against both idiosyncratic and aggregate real uncertainty, by holding a...

We propose a novel theory of banks' liquidity management and financial fragility. Banks hold liquidity and an illiquid productive asset, thereby engaging in maturity transformation, and insure their depositors against idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks. However, strategic complementarities in...

We study how regulation shapes the interaction between financial fragility and bank liquidity management and propose a rationale for the complementarity between bank recovery and resolution planning. To this end, we analyze an economy in which a benevolent resolution authority sets a bank...