Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153810 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1376
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
We study the prices that individual banks pay for liquidity (captured by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank and benchmarked by the overnight index swap) as a function of market conditions and bank characteristics. These prices depend in particular on the distribution of liquidity across banks, which is calculated over time using individual banklevel data on reserve requirements and actual holdings. Banks pay more for liquidity when positions are more imbalanced across banks, consistent with the existence of short squeezing. We also show that small banks pay more for liquidity and are more vulnerable to squeezes. Healthier banks pay less but, contrary to what one might expect, banks in formal liquidity networks do not. State guarantees reduce the price of liquidity but do not protect against squeezes.
Subjects: 
banks
imbalance
liquidity
money markets
repos
JEL: 
G12
G21
E43
E58
D44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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