noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
low
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They may simply go ahead and expand credit, and accept a lower liquidity ratio.
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Banks therefore require to hold a lower liquidity ratio, and can create more credit.
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The banks have tended to choose a lower liquidity ratio over the years, and certainly a lower cash ratio.
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Banks choosing to operate with a lower liquidity ratio could be prevented by the authorities imposing statutory reserve requirements on banks.
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Banks, being prepared to operate with a lower liquidity ratio, were only too pleased to supply the credit being demanded.
■ NOUN
preference
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The liquidity preference curve will tend to be less elastic.
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A rising yield curve can be explained by liquidity preference theory.
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Are shoppers somehow at fault if they have no concept of liquidity preference ?
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This is simply the result of a downward sloping liquidity preference curve.
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The phenomenon of liquidity preference can find no place in a model that admits of only one asset, fiat money.
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The more elastic the liquidity preference curve, the more idle balances will fall.
ratio
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Banks' liquidity ratio may vary Banks may choose a different liquidity ratio.
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They may simply go ahead and expand credit, and accept a lower liquidity ratio .
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An example of a statutory liquidity ratio was the minimum 121/2 percent reserve assets ratio imposed on banks from 1971 to 1981.
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The ratio of an institution's liquid assets to illiquid assets is known as its liquidity ratio.
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If a financial institution's liquidity ratio is too high, it will make too little profit.
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Profitability High liquidity ratios indicate short-term financial strength but do not measure efficiency of utilization of resources.
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In other words, the banks operate a 10 percent liquidity ratio .
■ VERB
provide
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And banks now provide almost as much liquidity for private securities as for public ones.
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The agency says it relied on a government commitment to provide liquidity , but the government reneged.
reduce
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The attempt to reduce liquidity in the economy through high real interest rates was the government's main mistake.
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Since bills are a reserve of banks, this too will reduce banks' liquidity .
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Open-market operations should therefore be much more effective in reducing general liquidity than in reducing the monetary base.
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In all three cases net sterling payments to the government's accounts at the Bank reduce market liquidity .
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Buyers are temporarily too liquid and therefore wish to reduce liquidity by buying.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they must always have sufficient liquidity to cover the possibility of any withdrawals.
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In order of priority, these criteria are safety, liquidity , and yield.
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The attraction of options and futures, our specialty item, was that they offered both liquidity and fantastic leverage.
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The balance of items in this range is influenced by two important considerations: profitability and liquidity .
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The incentive to borrow was raised still further by a reduction in the costs of bankruptcy and an increase in market liquidity .
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The second liquidity need is the same liquidity need that individuals have-firms need to maintain some cash balances to meet unexpected emergencies.
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Thus far we have seen that current assets are listed in order of liquidity , or nearness to cash.