In August of 2007, banks faced a freeze in funding liquidity from the asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market. We … investigate how banks scrambled for liquidity in response to this freeze and its implications for corporate borrowing. Commercial …

crisis is often attributed to corporate bond dealers' failure to provide liquidity. We investigate this common perception … using unique data on dealers' trading. We show that corporate bond dealers provided liquidity in response to major selling … activity by clients when the CDS-bond basis widened. Although providing liquidity, dealers did not trade aggressively enough to …

We investigate the transmission of central bank liquidity to bank deposits and loan spreads in Europe over the January … liquidity does not translate into lower loan spreads for high-risk banks, even as it lowers deposit rates for both high-risk and …