studies conducted in eleven countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that … explanatory power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk … management across global banks can be important for liquidity risk transmission into lending. Fourth, there is substantial …

Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The … liquidity insurer is not one of the passive recipient, but of an active seeker, of deposits. We find that banks facing a funding … liquidity demand shocks (as measured by their unused commitments, wholesale funding dependence, and limited liquid assets), as …

funds act as liquidity providers. Hedge funds using Lehman as prime broker could not trade after the bankruptcy, and these …-connected hedge funds in turn experienced greater declines in market liquidity following the bankruptcy than other stocks; and, the … effect was larger for ex ante illiquid stocks. We conclude that shocks to traders' funding liquidity reduce the market …

credit risk was increasing. Following the failure of Lehman Brothers, the interdependencies briefly increased to a new high … counterparty risk. After Lehman's failure, the prospect of global recession became imminent, auguring the further deterioration of …

-sale prices make it attractive for banks to hold liquid assets. We show that the resulting choice of bank liquidity is counter … crises may be desirable ex post. However, policies aimed at resolving crises affect ex-ante bank liquidity in subtle ways …: while liquidity support to failed banks or unconditional support to surviving banks in acquiring failed banks give banks …

This paper utilizes a micro-level data set from 49 countries to address three issues: What determines corruption at the … individual level? What determines the perception of the extent of corruption in the country? Does corruption have a direct impact … corruption which portrays the extent of corruption as revealed byindividuals who live in those countries. The results show that …

bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater … performance. In countries with strong creditor rights, firms also have lower cash flow risk and lower leverage, and there is …

We estimate the pricing of sovereign risk for sixty countries based on fiscal space (debt/tax; deficits/tax) and other … and economically important determinants of market-based sovereign risk. Although the explanatory power of fiscal space … emergence of TED spread as a key pricing factor. However, risk-pricing of the South-West Eurozone Periphery countries is not …

bonds, greater risk-bearing capacity in the U.S. than the rest of the world, and nominal rigidities. A flight to safety … generates a dollar appreciation and decline in global output. Dollar bonds thus command a negative risk premium and the U ….S. holds a levered portfolio of capital financed in dollars. We quantify the effects of safety shocks and heterogeneity in risk …