This paper presents a simulation exercise assessing the ability of Italian banks to fulfil their payment commitments in TARGET2, the Euro area Real Time Gross Settlement System, in the event of a contraction in the supply of funds in the overnight unsecured money market. The results of the...

We study daily money market mutual fund flows at the individual share class level during the crisis of September 2008. The empirical approach that we apply to this fine granularity of data brings new insights into the investor and portfolio holding characteristics that are conducive to run-risk...