Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26621 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2576
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individual banks' reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long liquidity. We find that the price a bank pays for liquidity depends on the liquidity positions of other banks, as well as its own. There is evidence that liquidity squeezes occasionally occur and short banks pay more the larger is the potential for a squeeze. The price paid for liquidity is decreasing in bank size and small banks are more adversely affected by an increased potential for a squeeze. Contrary to what one might expect, banks in formal liquidity networks do not pay less.
Subjects: 
Liquidity
banking
squeezes
money markets
repo auctions
JEL: 
G1
G21
E5
D44
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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