Precautionary Liquidity Shocks, Excess Reserves and Business Cycles

George John Bratsiotis, Konstantinos Theodoridis

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Abstract

This paper identifies a precautionary banking liquidity shock via a set of sign, zero and forecast variance restrictions imposed. The shock proxies the reluctance of the banking sector to "lend" to the real economy induced by an exogenous change in financial intermediaries' preference for "high" liquid assets. The identified shock has sizeable and state (volatility) dependent effects on the real economy. To understand the transmission of the shock, we develop a DSGE model of financial intermediation with credit and liquidity frictions. The precautionary liquidity shock is shown to work through two channels: it increases the level of reserves and the deposit rate. The former is a balance sheet effect, which reduces the loan-to-deposit ratio. The higher deposit rate affects the intertemporal decisions of households and the cost of borrowing to rms. The overall effect is a downward co-movement in output, consumption, investment and prices, which is amplified the higher are the long-run risk in the economy and the responsiveness of banks to potential risk.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages24
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020

Publication series

NameEconomics Discussion Paper Series
PublisherUniversity of Manchester
No.EDP-2014

Keywords

  • SVAR
  • Sign and Zero restrictions
  • DSGE
  • Precautionary Liquidity Shock
  • Excess Reserves
  • Risk
  • Financial Intermediation

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