Credit Risk, Liquidity, and Lies

Thomas King and Kurt F. Lewis
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Kurt F. Lewis: Federal Reserve Board

International Journal of Central Banking, 2020, vol. 16, issue 5, 219-267

Abstract: We examine the relative effects of credit risk and liquidity in the interbank market using bank-level panel data on LIBOR submissions and CDS spreads, allowing for the possibility that LIBOR-submitting firms may strategically misreport their funding costs. We find that interbank spreads were very sensitive to credit risk at the peak of the crisis. However, liquidity premiums constitute the bulk of those spreads on average, and Federal Reserve interventions coincide with improvements in liquidity at short maturities. Accounting for misreporting, which is large at times, is important for obtaining these results.

JEL-codes: E43 G21 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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Working Paper: Credit Risk, Liquidity and Lies (2015)
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