Basic economic theory identifies a number of efficiency gains that derive from international capital mobility. But just …

risk. Current reporting standards for derivatives exposures are nevertheless inadequate for assessing these systemic risk … contributions. In this paper, I explain how a transparency standard, in contrast to the current standard, would facilitate such risk … lack of standardization, they cannot be aggregated to assess the risk to the system. I highlight the important contribution …

We propose and test a theory of corporate liquidity management in which credit lines provided by banks to firms are a …-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the …

world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of …