This paper quantifies the substitution between money (bank deposits) and Treasuries. The estimation is significantly different from either zero or perfect substitution. Thus, fixing monetary policy, Treasury supply still affects the liquidity premium. Furthermore, the substitution increases over...

We analyze the term structure of Treasury liquidity premium (LP). Through a model where illiquidity shocks can be alleviated by holding money and Treasuries, we show that the LP term structure is determined by (i) expectation of future liquidity conditions, (ii) liquidity term premium, (iii)...

This is the Appendix of the paper "Public Liquidity and Financial Crises", "https://ssrn.com/abstract=3175101" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3175101.In this appendix, I show the numerical methods for solving the general equilibrium model that features infrequent financial crises and the private...

Investors can execute trades through either brokers that trade on their behalf (agency intermediation) or dealers that trade with them (principal intermediation). We explain the heterogeneity in intermediation via the trade-off between monitoring brokers and incurring dealer inventory costs....

Crises have cleansing effects: Low-quality firms face greater financial shortfalls and invest less than high-quality firms. Public liquidity support preserves the overall production capacity. However, by dampening the cleansing effects, it distorts the quality distribution and reduces the total...

A salient trend in crisis intervention has emerged in recent decades: Government and central banks offered funding directly to nonfinancial firms, bypassing banks and other credit intermediaries. We analyze the long-term consequences of such policies by focusing on firm quality dynamics. In a...

Is the supply of public liquidity important for alleviating financial crises? I quantify a general equilibrium model featuring the liquidity insurance channel: Banks demand public liquidity as insurance against liquidation losses during banking crises. Cheaper liquidity insurance increases...