Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86848 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 11-040/2/DSF15
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper discusses liquidity regulation when short-term funding enables credit growth but generates negative systemic risk externalities. It focuses on the relativemerit of price versus quantity rules, showing how they target different incentives for risk creation.When banks differ in credit opportunities, a Pigovian tax on short-term funding is efficient in containing risk and preserving credit quality, while quantity-based fundingratios are distorsionary. Liquidity buffers are either fully ineffective or similar to a Pigovian tax with deadweight costs. Critically, they may be least binding when excess credit incentives are strongest.When banks differ instead mostly in gambling incentives (due to low charter valueor overconfidence), excess credit and liquidity risk are best controlled with net fundingratios. Taxes on short-term funding emerge again as efficient when capital or liquidityratios keep risk shifting incentives under control. In general, an optimal policy shouldinvolve both types of tools.
Subjects: 
Systemic risk
Liquidity risk
Liquidity requirements
Liquidity risk levies
Macroprudential regulation
JEL: 
G21
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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