How do Banks Manage Liquidity Risk? Evidence from Equity and Deposit Markets in the Fall of 1998

Philip E. Strahan, Evan Gatev and Til Schuermann

No 10982, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We report evidence from the equity market that unused loan commitments expose banks to systematic liquidity risk, especially during crises such as the one observed in the fall of 1998. We also find, however, that banks with higher levels of transactions deposits had lower risk during the 1998 crisis than other banks. These banks experienced large inflows of funds just as they were needed -- when liquidity demanded by firms taking down funds from commercial paper backup lines of credit peaked. Our evidence suggests that combining loan commitments with deposits mitigates liquidity risk, and that this deposit-lending synergy is especially powerful during period of crises as nervous investors move funds into their banks.

JEL-codes: G18 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-12
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Published as Carey, Mark and René Stulz (eds.) Risks of Financial Institutions. Chicago: NBER & University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Published as How Do Banks Manage Liquidity Risk? Evidence from the Equity and Deposit Markets in the Fall of 1998 , Evan Gatev, Til Schuermann, Philip Strahan. in The Risks of Financial Institutions , Carey and Stulz. 2006

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