'Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences'
Doi
Abstract
Nowadays, the liquidity management is one of the biggest challenges facing the banking system. For proper management of liquidity, identifying the influencing factors is necessary. This study is aimed to discuss factors that affect liquidity in Iran banking system. The population of the research includes all active banks and financial institutions in Iran between the years of 2009-2013.The study is in terms of purpose applied, in nature correlational, in analysis method Panel data model and in the type of statistic test regression. Considering the literature, in this study, factors affecting liquidity are classified into four categories: opportunity costs and financing shock, bank characteristics, macro-economic variables, banking characteristics and security of financing network.The results show that last year liquidity, the capital, ratio of interest income, bank size, interest gap, changes in deposit and the ratio of foreign currency deposits to total deposits have significant effects on banks` liquidity. Hence, in order to identify factors affecting future cash, the bank management during their annual operations, is suggested to consider the factors approved in this study for solving liquidity problems accordingly less reference to the central bank or to other banks to finance high-rate be require
