We causally identify the implications of relaxing the Supplementary Leverage Ratio in April 2020 for bank balance sheet composition and credit provision. Our findings suggest that this risk-invariant leverage ratio was binding for banks, weakly affected bank liquidity provision in Treasury...

In recent empirical literature, investment-cash flow (ICF) sensitivity can increase or decrease with the tightness of financing constraints. Earlier critiques suggesting that cash flow reflects expected productivity cannot explain the mixed results. Theories of financing constraints, however,...