Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60911 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 498
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Financial crises are associated with reduced volumes and extreme levels of rates for term inter-bank loans, reflected in the one-month and three-month Libor. We explain such stress by modeling leveraged banks' precautionary demand for liquidity. Asset shocks impair a bank's ability to roll over debt because of agency problems associated with high leverage. In turn, banks hoard liquidity and decrease term lending as their rollover risk increases over the term of the loan. High levels of short-term leverage and illiquidity of assets lead to low volumes and high rates for term borrowing. In extremis, inter-bank markets can completely freeze.
Subjects: 
inter-bank lending
financial crisis
precautionary demand
rollover risk
Libor-OIS spread
JEL: 
G21
G01
E43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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