Arbeitspapier

Liquidity transformation and bank capital requirements

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model where asymmetric information about asset quality leads to asset illiquidity. Banking arises endogenously in this environment as banks can pool illiquid assets to average out their idiosyncratic qualities and issue liquid liabilities backed by pooled assets whose total quality is public information. Moreover, the liquidity mismatch in banks' balance sheets leads to endogenous bank capital (outside equity) requirements for preventing bank runs. The model indicates that banking has both positive and negative effects on long-run economic growth and that business-cycle dynamics of asset prices, asset illiquidity and bank capital requirements are interconnected.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Working Paper ; No. 2010-22

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Thema
Financial stability
financial system regulation and policies
Finanzmarkt
Bankenliquidität
Unvollkommene Information
Wirtschaftswachstum
Allgemeines Gleichgewicht

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Tomura, Hajime
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2010

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2010-22
Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Tomura, Hajime
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2010

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