Banks’ Responses to Funding Liquidity Shocks: Lending Adjustment, Liquidity Hoarding and Fire Sales

Author(s):  
Leo de Haan ◽  
Jan Willem van den End
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 2150002
Author(s):  
Zhongzhi Song

This paper examines the impact of banks’ lending incentives on asset prices and bank cash holdings under liquidity risk. Banks make lending decisions based on the tradeoff between costs (fire sales of illiquid assets) and benefits (high returns from bank loans). This paper shows fire sales of assets can be an endogenous outcome, even if banks are endowed with enough cash to meet liquidity shocks. This paper also helps explain why banks have kept a large amount of cash without lending after government capital injections in the 2008 financial crisis. The model further provides policy implications for government intervention.


Author(s):  
Nicole M. Boyson ◽  
Jean Helwege ◽  
Jan Jindra

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole M. Boyson ◽  
Jean Helwege ◽  
Jan Jindra

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