I exploit the 1998 Russian default as a negative liquidity shock to international banks and analyze its impact on Peru. I find that after the shock international banks reduce bank-to-bank lending to Peruvian banks and Peruvian banks reduce lending to Peruvian firms. The effect is strongest for...

We study the severe credit crunch of finance companies (SOFOLES) in Mexico using firm-level data between 2001 and 2011. Our results provide supporting evidence for a liquidity shock in the form of restricted access to commercial bank loans, loans from other organizations and public debt markets...

This paper investigates liquidity spillovers between the US and European interbank market during turbulent and tranquil periods. We show that an endogenous model with time-varying transition probabilities is effective in describing the propagation of liquidity shocks within the interbank market,...

This paper uses the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a negative liquidity shock on banks in the US and analyzes its transmission to the real economy. The ex-ante heterogeneity in the amount of long-term debt that matured during the crisis is used to measure the variation in banks' exposure to the...

We examine China's June 2013 liquidity crunch as a negative shock to banks and analyze the wealth effects on exchange-listed firms. Our findings suggest that liquidity shocks to financial institutions negatively impact borrower performance, particularly borrowers reporting outstanding loans at...

This paper examines the impact of exogenous liquidity shocks on banks borrowing funds in the interbank market. We evaluate the effects of idiosyncratic liquidity shocks — arising from deposits outflow at the bank level — and of the aggregate liquidity shock related to the U.S. tapering...

Do liquidity shocks matter? While even a simple `yes' or `no' presents identification challenges, going beyond this entails tracing how such shocks to lenders are passed on to borrowers, and whether borrowers can in turn cushion these shocks through the credit market. This paper does so by using...