Liquidity risk management: evidence from for turkish banking sector

The maturities of asset and liability structure of banks differentiate because banks use short-term debt to invest in long-term assets. This creates liquidity risk. Recently, the global crisis has proven that the lack of bank liquidity was the main trigger of all the negative events. The aim of the study is to investigate factors determining liquidity risk in Turkish banking system. This paper applies the Generalized Method of Moments technique for dynamic panels using bank-level data for 23 Turkish commercial banks over the period 2003 to 2011. We find that there is a negative (positive) relationship between bank liquidity (liquidity risk) and profitability indicators. We also find global financial crises, foreign ownership, state-private ownership is determinant factors of bank liquidity (liquidity risk), contributing to existing empirical analyses of the studies