High Liquidity Creation and Bank Failures: Do They Behave Differently?

High Liquidity Creation and Bank Failures: Do They Behave Differently?
ISBN-10
1475581807
ISBN-13
9781475581805
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
33
Language
English
Published
2015-05-06
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Authors
Rima Turk, Zuzana Fungacova, Laurent Weill

Description

We formulate the “High Liquidity Creation Hypothesis” (HLCH) that a proliferation in the core activity of bank liquidity creation increases failure probability. We test the HLCH in the context of Russian banking, which provides a natural field experiment due to numerous failures experienced over the past decade. Using Berger and Bouwman’s (2009) liquidity creation measures as a comprehensive proxy for overall bank output, we find that high liquidity creation significantly increases the probability of bank failure; this finding survives multiple robustness checks. Our results suggest that regulatory authorities can mitigate systemic distress and reduce the costs of bank failures to society through early identification of high liquidity creators and enhanced monitoring of their funding and investment activities.

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