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The crisis of 2007-09 has been characterized by a sudden freeze in the market for short-term, secured borrowing. We present a model that can explain a sudden collapse in the amount that can be borrowed against finitely-lived assets with little credit risk. The borrowing in this model takes the...
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liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …
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What determines the sustainability of sovereign debt? We develop a model where myopic governments seek popularity but can nevertheless commit credibly to service external debt. They do not default when debt is low because they would lose access to debt markets and be forced to reduce spending;...
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reserves, which are also claims on liquidity. In ordinary times, when these claims are not called on, central bank balance … sheet expansion will typically enhance the net availability of liquidity to the system. However, in times of stress when … these offsetting claims on liquidity are exercised, the demand for liquidity can be significantly more. Furthermore, liquid …
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This paper studies a model in which a low monetary policy rate lowers the cost of capital for entrepreneurs, potentially spurring productive investment. Low interest rates, however, also induce entrepreneurs to lever up so as to increase payouts to equity. Whereas such leveraged payouts...
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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 …
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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 …
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We model the interplay between cash and debt policies in the presence of financial constraints. While saving cash allows financially constrained firms to hedge against future income shortfalls, reducing debt - "saving borrowing capacity" - is a more effective way of securing future investment in...
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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 …
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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 …
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