markets) during the financial crisis has affected their provision of funds to their foreign branches and subsidiaries via bank … likely to withdraw bank-internal funds from their branches and subsidiaries located abroad. Among the three events, the … rescue of Bear Stearns triggered the largest contraction on internal capital markets from the part of the parent bank …

that due to its size, a large bank receives a more precise signal about the overall liquidity development in the banking … sector. In an upcoming liquidity shortage this large bank can exploit its informational advantage in the spot money market by … rationing liquidity. Using forward contracts, the large bank can credibly commit not to squeeze small banks in the event of a …

of firm's publicly observable credit quality. Under plausible assumptions about the cost of bank borrowing the model … times and bank debt in adverse times. The paper suggests that better publicly available information about firm quality and …