Abstract:
Liquidity reflects the capability of the commercial banks to fund asset growth and meet its
obligations as they mature without incurring losses. The main aim of this study is to examine
determinants of liquidity in case of Ethiopian commercial banks. Eleven commercial banks in
Ethiopia were taken as a sample. The researcher used purposive sampling technique to select
those eleven commercial banks of Ethiopia. The data covers the period from 2011/122020/21G.C
were collected from audited annual report of each commercial banks and annual
report of national bank of Ethiopia for analysis. Since the data is continuous in nature, a
quantitative approach was used and random effects technique was used for regression analysis,
so in order to determine the effect of listed variables on liquidity of commercial banks in
Ethiopian positivism knowledge claim is employed. This study analyzed the effect of independent
variables mainly classified as internal and external factors are namely capital adequacy,
profitability, bank size, loan growth, interest rate margin, deposit mobilized, NBE bill purchase
requirement, inflation, GDP growth and Money supply; on the dependent variable, which is
liquidity of commercial banks.. Among those variables capital adequacy, loan growth, deposit
mobilization, money supply and GDP growth found to have statistically significant effect. From
these statistically significant variables, capital adequacy and deposit mobilization have positive
effect over liquidity of commercial banks. Finally the researcher recommends Ethiopian
commercial banks to boost their liquidity through contractionary monetary policy, maintaining
adequate capital and aggressive deposit mobilization campaign.