Funding Stability and Bank Liquidity

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Thomas Flanagan

Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business

Date Written: March 16, 2020

Abstract

In this paper, I study how rollover funding risk affects banks’ asset illiquidity choice. I address this question using the 2016 US money market fund reform, which reduced the availability of unstable MMF funding and imposed regulations that mitigated the incentives of MMF investors to run. Using this regulatory shock and a sample of MMF-borrowing international banks, I find that a reduction in rollover risk following MMF reform leads to an increase in the fraction of lending on bank balance sheets. I supplement this analysis with detailed corporate loan-level data and find that the increase in lending is concentrated in the most illiquid loan categories. This evidence supports the theory that unstable funding discourages investment in illiquid assets by exposing banks to fire-sale risk.

Keywords: Banks, Liquidity, Rollover Risk, Funding Stability

JEL Classification: G21, G23, G28

Suggested Citation

Flanagan, Thomas, Funding Stability and Bank Liquidity (March 16, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3555346 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3555346

Thomas Flanagan (Contact Author)

Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business ( email )

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