recession. Consistent with the theory, the increase in bank credit in 2020:Q1 and 2020:Q2 came almost entirely from drawdowns by … large firms on pre-committed lines of credit. Differences in demand for liquidity cannot fully explain the differences in … shorter maturity credit lines than large firms; (ii) have less active maturity management and therefore frequently have …

have despite this received scant attention in the credit-line literature. In this paper, I study the liquidity … commercial-paper market during the COVID-19 pandemic as an exogenous shock to the supply of market-provided liquidity. I find … that backup lines provide commercial-paper issuers with reliable liquidity insurance and that banks' liquidity provision …

% to generate the same liquidity of a credit fire sale …We study the role of captive finance in the car loan market when manufacturers' liquidity demand increases. Using a new … multi-country dataset on securitized car loans, we show that captive lending enables a liquidity constrained integrated …

explore the determinants of the choice of using bank loans for short-term liquidity insurance purposes or long-term funding …We show that illiquid assets such as bank loans are used by euro area banks both as central bank collateral for short …-term liquidity insurance purposes and for longer-term funding purposes for issuing covered bonds or asset-backed securities. We then …