Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/97448 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1312
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
Following the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, interbank borrowing and lending dropped, whereas reserve holdings of depository institutions skyrocketed, as the Fed injected liquidity into the U.S. banking sector. This paper introduces bank liquidity risk and limited market participation into a real business cycle model with ex ante identical financial intermediaries and shows, in an analytically tractable way, how interbank trade and excess reserves emerge in general equilibrium. Investigating the role of the federal funds market and unconventional monetary policy for the propagation of aggregate real and financial shocks, I find that federal funds market participation is irrelevant in response to standard supply and demand shocks, whereas it matters for uncertainty shocks, i.e. mean-preserving spreads in the cross-section of liquidity risk. Liquidity injections by the central bank can absorb the effects of financial shocks on the real economy, although excess reserves might increase and federal funds might be crowded out, as a side effect.
Subjects: 
Excess reserves
Federal funds market
Financial frictions
Liquidity risk
Unconventional monetary policy
JEL: 
C61
E32
E51
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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