We study the exposure of the US corporate bond returns to liquidity shocks of stocks and Treasury bonds over the period … 1973 - 2007 in a regime - switching model. In one regime, liquidity shocks have mostly insignificant effects on bond prices … default), suggest the existence of time-varying liquidity risk of corporate bond returns conditional on episodes of flight to …

, under certain circumstances, the credit channel transmission mechanism fails in that liquidity injections by the central … show how they can arise due to the interplay between financing frictions, liquidity, and collateral values. Our analysis …

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 …

importance of borrowing constraints in Japan. We find (1) that 8 to 15 percent of young married Japanese households are borrowing … does not apply in Japan and that the presence of borrowing constraints is not the main reason why it does not apply …