![The liquidity of bank assets and banking stability [An article from: Journal of Banking and Finance]](https://www.ebooknetworking.net/books/B00/0PC/bigB000PC0OOK.jpg)
The liquidity of bank assets and banking stability [An article from: Journal of Banking and Finance]
Book Details
Author(s)W. Wagner
PublisherElsevier
ISBN / ASINB000PC0OOK
ISBN-13978B000PC0OO2
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
Description
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Banking and Finance, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Description:
This paper shows that an increased liquidity of bank assets, paradoxically, increases banking instability and the externalities associated with banking failures. This is because even though higher asset liquidity directly benefits stability by encouraging banks to reduce the risks on their balance sheets and by facilitating the liquidation of assets in a crisis, it also makes crises less costly for banks. As a result, banks have an incentive to take on an amount of new risk that more than offsets the positive direct impact on stability.
Description:
This paper shows that an increased liquidity of bank assets, paradoxically, increases banking instability and the externalities associated with banking failures. This is because even though higher asset liquidity directly benefits stability by encouraging banks to reduce the risks on their balance sheets and by facilitating the liquidation of assets in a crisis, it also makes crises less costly for banks. As a result, banks have an incentive to take on an amount of new risk that more than offsets the positive direct impact on stability.
