A Market Risk Approach to Liquidity Risk and Financial Contagion

Número: 
384
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
G21, G33, L14
Palabras clave: 
Liquidity manager, liquidity risk, market risk, systemic risk

According to traditional literature, liquidity risk in individual banks can turn into a system-wide financial crisis when either interbank credit exposures or bank runs are present. This paper shows that this phenomenon can also arise when individual liqu