Managing Bank Liquidity Risk: How Deposit-Loan Synergies Vary with Market Conditions
Authors:
- Evan GatevEGEvan Gatev
- Til SchuermannTSTil Schuermann
- Philip E. StrahanPSPhilip E. Strahan
- 20 November 2007
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Review of Financial Studies
- Vol. 22 (3) , 995-1020
Abstract
Liquidity risk in banking has been attributed to transactions deposits and their potential to spark runs or panics. We show instead that transactions deposits help banks hedge liquidity risk from unused loan commitments. Bank stock-return volatility increases with unused commitments, but only for banks with low levels of transactions deposits. This deposit-lending hedge becomes more powerful during periods of tight liquidity, when nervous investors move funds into their banks. Our results reverse the standard notion of liquidity risk at banks, where runs from depositors had been seen as the cause of trouble.Keywords
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