Contagion of a liquidity crisis between two firms |
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Authors: | Frederick Dongchuhl Oh |
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Institution: | KAIST College of Business, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 85 Hoegi-Ro, Dongdaemoon-Gu, Seoul 130-722, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a model in which the contagion of a liquidity crisis between two nonfinancial institutions occurs because of learning activity within a common creditor pool. After creditors observe what occurs in a rollover game for a firm, they conjecture one another's “type” or attitude toward the risk associated with the firm's investment project. Creditors' inference about one another's type then influences their decision to lend to the next firm. By providing an analysis of the “incidence of failure” (the threshold for a liquidity crisis) for each firm, this paper demonstrates that the risk of contagion increases sharply if it originates ex ante from a firm facing a low probability of failure. In addition, the paper proposes some policy measures for mitigating the severity of contagion during a liquidity crisis. |
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Keywords: | Contagion Liquidity crisis Global game Learning Coordination failure Information structure |
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