Systemic Risk and the Solvency-Liquidity Nexus of Banks

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serval:BIB_AE5239332D02
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Systemic Risk and the Solvency-Liquidity Nexus of Banks
Journal
International Journal of Central Banking
Author(s)
Pierret  D.
ISSN
1815-4654
Publication state
Published
Issued date
06/2015
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
11
Number
3
Pages
193-227
Language
english
Abstract
This paper highlights the empirical interaction between solvency and liquidity risks of banks that make them particularly vulnerable to an aggregate crisis. In line with the literature explaining bank runs based on the quality of the bank's fundamentals, I find that banks lose their access to short-term funding when markets expect they will be insolvent in a crisis. This solvency-liquidity nexus is found to be strong under many robustness checks and to contain useful information for forecasting the short-term balance sheet of banks. The results suggest that capital not only acts as a loss-absorbing buffer, but it also ensures the confidence of creditors to continue to provide funding to the banks in a crisis.
Keywords
Capital shortfall, Funding liquidity risk, Short-term funding
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