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Financial crises have been pervasive for many years. Their frequency in recent decades has been double that of the Bretton Woods Period (1945-1971) and the Gold Standard Era (1880-1993), comparable only to the period during the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the financial crisis that started in the summer of 2007 came as a great surprise to most people. What initially was seen as difficulties in the U.S. subprime mortgage market, rapidly escalated and spilled over first to financial markets and then to the real economy. The crisis changed the financial landscape worldwide and its full costs are yet to be evaluated. One important reason for the global impact of the 2007-2009 financial crisis was massive illiquidity in combination with an extreme exposure of many financial institutions to liquidity needs and market conditions. As a consequence, many financial instruments could not be traded anymore, investors ran on a variety of financial institutions particularly in wholesale markets, financial institutions and industrial firms started to sell assets at fire sale prices to raise cash, and central banks all over the world injected huge amounts of liquidity into financial systems. But what is liquidity and why is it so important for firms and financial institutions to command enough liquidity? This book brings together classic articles and recent contributions to this important field of research. It provides comprehensive coverage of the role of liquidity in financial crises and is divided into five parts: (i) liquidity and interbank markets; (ii) the public provision of liquidity and regulation; (iii) money, liquidity and asset prices; (iv) contagion effects; (v) financial crises and currency crises.
Bank Liquidity Creation and Financial Crises delivers a consistent, logical presentation of bank liquidity creation and addresses questions of research and policy interest that can be easily understood by readers with no advanced or specialized industry knowledge. Authors Allen Berger and Christa Bouwman examine ways to measure bank liquidity creation, how much liquidity banks create in different countries, the effects of monetary policy (including interest rate policy, lender of last resort, and quantitative easing), the effects of capital, the effects of regulatory interventions, the effects of bailouts, and much more. They also analyze bank liquidity creation in the US over the past three decades during both normal times and financial crises. Narrowing the gap between the "academic world" (focused on theories) and the "practitioner world" (dedicated to solving real-world problems), this book is a helpful new tool for evaluating a bank’s performance over time and comparing it to its peer group. Explains that bank liquidity creation is a more comprehensive measure of a bank’s output than traditional measures and can also be used to measure bank liquidity Describes how high levels of bank liquidity creation may cause or predict future financial crises Addresses questions of research and policy interest related to bank liquidity creation around the world and provides links to websites with data and other materials to address these questions Includes such hot-button topics as the effects of monetary policy (including interest rate policy, lender of last resort, and quantitative easing), the effects of capital, the effects of regulatory interventions, and the effects of bailouts
This book explores the effect of liquidity on asset prices, liquidity variations over time and how liquidity risk affects prices.
This book discusses the risks and opportunities that arise in Emerging Asia given the context of a new environment in global liquidity and capital flows. It elaborates on the need to ensure financial and overall economic stability in the region through improved financial regulation and other policy measures to minimize the emergent risks. "Managing Elevated Risk: Global Liquidity, Capital Flows, and Macroprudential Policy—An Asian Perspective" also explores the range of policy options that may be deployed to address the impact of global liquidity on domestic financial and socio-economic conditions including income inequality. The book is primarily aimed at policy makers, financial market regulators and supervisory agencies to help them improve national regulatory systems and to promote harmonization of national regulations and practices in line with global standards. Scholars and researchers will also gain important information and knowledge about the overall impacts of changing global liquidity from the book.
Research has found that negative liquidity shocks contract bank lending and amplify economic downturns. This paper investigates a reverse scenario -- the effects of a flooding of liquidity on financial markets, using the case of Puerto Rico as a quasi-natural experiment. The U.S. Tax Reform Act of 1976 implemented tax incentives (through IRC Section 936) to stimulate economic development in Puerto Rico. In combination with local incentives, Section 936 corporations generated significant funds, most of which were deposited in local (PR) banks. The tax incentives were repealed in 1996, allowing for a 10-year phase-out period. I analyze the effect that the 936 funds had on Puerto Rico's banking industry between 1984 and 2016. I find that 936 funds did stimulate loan growth -- in particular, C&I lending, and real estate loans. However, the stimulus appears to have been “too much” -- the incidence of troubled loans (90 day past due) among banks that received 936 funds was significantly higher after Section 936 tax subsidy was repealed, indicating that a sizable portion of the projects those banks were financing were inefficient. The implementation and subsequent removal of these tax incentives introduced an extended boom-bust cycle that dislocated Puerto Rico's economic structure, contributing to the ongoing economic crisis.
"The process by which securities are traded is very different from the idealized picture of a frictionless and self-equilibrating market offered by the typical finance textbook. This book offers a more accurate and authoritative take on this process. The book starts from the assumption that not everyone is present at all times simultaneously on the market, and that participants have quite diverse information about the security's fundamentals. As a result, the order flow is a complex mix of information and noise, and a consensus price only emerges gradually over time as the trading process evolves and the participants interpret the actions of other traders. Thus, a security's actual transaction price may deviate from its fundamental value, as it would be assessed by a fully informed set of investors. The book takes these deviations seriously, and explains why and how they emerge in the trading process and are eventually eliminated. The authors draw on a vast body of theoretical insights and empirical findings on security price formation that have come to form a well-defined field within financial economics known as "market microstructure." Focusing on liquidity and price discovery, the book analyzes the tension between the two, pointing out that when price-relevant information reaches the market through trading pressure rather than through a public announcement, liquidity may suffer. It also confronts many striking phenomena in securities markets and uses the analytical tools and empirical methods of market microstructure to understand them. These include issues such as why liquidity changes over time and differs across securities, why large trades move prices up or down, and why these price changes are subsequently reversed, and why we observe temporary deviations from asset fair values"--
This dissertation, "The Real Effects of Stock Market Liquidity" by Ying, Xia, 夏颖, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: One important line of literature in finance studies the real effects of stock market on the economy. Following this area of research, I investigate whether stock market liquidity can affect firm's real economic activities. This thesis consists of two empirical studies about the effects of stock market liquidity on firm's default risk and manager's earnings manipulation. The first chapter examines the impact of stock liquidity on firm default risk. Default occurs when a firm's cash flows are insufficient to cover its debt service costs and principal payments. I show that firms with more liquid stocks have lower default risk. Using the Securities and Exchange Commission's decimalization regulation as a shock to stock market liquidity, I establish that enhanced stock liquidity causally decreases default risk. Then I find two mechanisms through which liquidity reduces firm default risk: through improving stock price informational efficiency, and facilitating corporate governance by blockholders. Of the two mechanisms, informational efficiency channel has higher explanatory power than the corporate governance channel. The second chapter studies the relationship between stock market liquidity and earnings management. Earning management occurs when managers exercise their discretions over the choices of accounting methods or operational activities with the objective to influence the reported earnings. Using a sample of U.S. public firms over the time period from 1993 to 2012, I find that firms with more liquid stocks have lower level of both real and accrual-based earnings management. The result is robust to the use of various measures of liquidity. I address the endogeneity problem by using instrumental variable approach and a source of exogenous shocks to stock liquidity, i.e. Decimalization regulation. These methods provide evidence of a causal effect of liquidity on earnings management. I further find that liquidity curbs earnings management by mitigating the information asymmetry between managers and shareholder and facilitating governance by large institutional investors. Subjects: Liquidity (Economics) Stock exchanges
(Cont.) A United States Supreme Court decision effectively deregulated bank credit card interest rates in December 1978, and I develop evidence that consumers from states with binding usury ceilings before the decision became more likely to hold bank cards after the decision, relative to their counterparts in unaffected states. The marginal cardholders appear to have characteristics widely associated with credit constraints, and to borrow frequently on their new cards. Yet there is little evidence that these cardholders exploit their newfound liquidity by shifting into higher-yielding, less liquid, or riskier assets. This finding is at odds with most models of liquidity constraints, and motivates consideration of alternative explanations for the widely observed sensitivity of consumers to liquidity.
This is the first professional-level authoritative guide to today's global financial system: how it works, how its elements fit together, and the vulnerabilities that can cause it to fail. Writing for working financial professionals and other sophisticated readers, the authors thoroughly explain the modern global credit system; the roles of banks, hedge funds, insurers, central banks, mortgage markets, and other participants; and the credit-related instruments they rely on. In particular, the authors illuminate the crucial importance of liquidity, and show why liquidity failures have been the key cause of all major market crashes for the past several decades. The Global Financial System thoroughly examines economic environments in which slow de-leveraging leads to prolonged sluggish growth, and compares today's environment to other periods of deleveraging, such as the Great Depression and the Japanese economic meltdown of the '90s and '00s. It predicts potential pathways for the current crisis, and offers essential guidance to both policymakers and investment decision-makers.