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Working Paper

Banking and Commerce: A Liquidity Approach

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This paper looks at the advantages and disadvantages of mixing banking and commerce, using the "liquidity" approach financial intermediation. Adding a commercial firm makes it easier for a bank to dispose of assets seized in a loan default. This 'internal market' increases the liquidity of such assets and improves the bank’s ability to perform financial intermediation. More generally, owning a commercial firm may act either as a substitute or a complement to commercial lending. In some cases, a bank will voluntarily refrain from making loans, choosing to become a non-bank bank in an unregulated environment.
08.01.1999ISSN 2573-7953 WP 99-07DOI 10.26509/frbc-wp-199907

Working Papers of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are preliminary materials circulated to stimulate discussion and critical comment on research in progress. They may not have been subject to the formal editorial review accorded official Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland publications. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Federal Reserve System.

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Haubrich, Joseph G., and João Cabral dos Santos. 1999. “Banking and Commerce: A Liquidity Approach.” Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Working Paper No. 99-07. https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-199907