Liquidity and Financial Market Runs

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Journal: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Year: 2004
Volume: 119
Issue: 1
Pages: 135-158

Authors (2)

Antonio E. Bernardo (not in RePEc) Ivo Welch (University of California-Los A...)

Score contribution per author:

4.022 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 4.0x S-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We model a run on a financial market, in which each risk-neutral investor fears having to liquidate shares after a run, but before prices can recover back to fundamental values. To avoid having to possibly liquidate shares at the marginal postrun price—in which case the risk-averse market-making sector will already hold a lot of share inventory and thus be more reluctant to absorb additional shares—each investor may prefer selling today at the average in-run price, thereby causing the run itself. Liquidity runs and crises are not caused by liquidity shocks per se, but by the fear of future liquidity shocks.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:oup:qjecon:v:119:y:2004:i:1:p:135-158.
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-29