Does Excessive Liquidity Creation Trigger Bank Failures?
35 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2013 Last revised: 19 Mar 2013
Date Written: January 21, 2013
Abstract
This paper introduces the “Excessive Liquidity Creation Hypothesis,” whereby a rise in a bank’s core liquidity creation activity increases its probability of failure. Russia experienced many bank failures over the past decade, making it an ideal natural field experiment for testing this hypothesis. Using Berger and Bouwman’s (2009) liquidity creation measures, we find that excessive liquidity creation significantly increased the probability of bank failure during our observation period (2000−2007). This finding survives multiple robustness checks. Our results further suggest that regulatory authorities can mitigate systemic distress and reduce the costs to society from bank failures through early identification and enhanced monitoring of excessive liquidity creators.
Keywords: liquidity creation, bank failures
JEL Classification: G21, G28
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