Basel III: Rethinking Liquidity and Leverage

Optimizing Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratios

Strengthening Bank Management of Liquidity Risk: The Basel III Liquidity Standards

The global financial crisis highlighted the importance of ensuring that the financial system has adequate liquidity to withstand adverse circumstances. The funding pressures that began in 2007 underlined the acute deficiencies in the liquidity-risk-management practices of some banks, and the severity of the ensuing crisis required massive public sector support to stem the liquidity spiral and m...

Operational risk : A Basel II++ step before Basel III

Following the Banking Committee on Banking Supervision, operational risk quantification is based on the Basel matrix which enables sorting incidents. In this paper we analyze these incidents in depth and propose strategies for carrying out the supervisory guidelines proposed by the regulators. The objectives are as follows: • On the first hand, banks need to provide a univariate capital charge ...

Leverage and Liquidity Dry-ups: A Framework and Policy Implications

We model financial market liquidity as provided by financially constrained arbitrageurs. Market liquidity increases with the level of arbitrage capital, i.e., internal and external capital arbitrageurs can access frictionlessly. We show that liquidity dry-ups follow periods of low returns of arbitrageurs’ risky investment opportunities, and that liquidity is correlated across markets. A welfare...

The Dark Side of Liquidity Creation: Leverage and Systemic Risk

This paper exposes a fundamental tension between the micro-prudential objective of subjecting banks to greater discipline through debt markets and the macro-prudential objective of containing systemic risk. We show that banks are illiquid due to the inability of bankers to credibly pre-commit to asset choices. Bank debt can reduce this illiquidity by disciplining bankers with the threat of prem...