' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit lines, their significance in managing corporate liquidity, and the …

liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …

We argue that a firm's aggregate risk is a key determinant of whether it manages its future liquidity needs through … cash reserves or bank lines of credit. Banks create liquidity for firms by pooling their idiosyncratic risks. As a result … opportunity costs and liquidity premium. We verify our model's hypothesis empirically by showing that firms with high asset beta …

drying up of liquidity. Financial firms raise short-term debt in order to finance asset purchases. When asset fundamentals … worsen, debt induces firms to risk-shift; this limits their funding liquidity and their ability to roll over debt. Firms may … de-lever by selling assets to better-capitalized firms. Thus the market liquidity of assets depends on the severity of …

This paper solves explicitly an equilibrium asset pricing model with liquidity risk -- the risk arising from … unpredictable changes in liquidity over time. In our liquidity-adjusted capital asset pricing model, a security's required return … depends on its expected liquidity as well as on the covariances of its own return and liquidity with market return and market …

We propose and test a theory of corporate liquidity management in which credit lines provided by banks to firms are a … form of monitored liquidity insurance. Bank monitoring and resulting credit line revocations help control illiquidity …-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management …