Firms depend heavily on trade credit. In the years 1980-2004 about 60% of all inputs to production were purchased with a delayed payment. This paper provides evidence that trade credit connection plays signi cant role in the growth stability of customers by reducing the propagation of rm-level shocks from suppliers onto their customers. On average, customer experiences about 20% lower disruptio...

In this paper, we use the recent collapse of the ARS market as the laboratory to study issues on the fragility of financial innovations and systemic risks. We find strong evidence of investor runs for liquidity—partly caused by a self-fulfilling panic—and coordination failures among major broker-dealers in providing liquidity support. The two forces amplify each other dynamically, resulting in ...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between credit risk and liquidity in the sovereign bond market in the context of the European Central Bank (ECB) interventions. Using a comprehensive set of liquidity measures obtained from a detailed, quote-level dataset of the largest interdealer market for Italian government bonds, we show that changes in credit risk, as measured by the Italian so...

This paper investigates empirically why Japan’s household savings rate fell in the 1990s. We constructed an economic model consisting of two types of household: unconstrained life-cycle households and liquidity-constrained households. Unconstrained households generally save, but liquidity-constrained households consume all of their disposable income. We found that the proportion of liquidity-co...

This paper examines the cross-sectional relation between corporate governance and firm liquidity in the Chinese stock market. Each year we construct a measure of overall quality of governance based on publicly available information for each firm listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHSE) and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) over the 1999-2004 interval. After accounting for other liquidity-r...

Using proprietary audit trail transactions compiled by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, we investigate, at the individual trader level, (1) the timing and (2) the determinants of dual traders’ personal trades. Our analysis reveals a surprising absence of any trade timing by dual traders in relation to the execution of their customers’ orders. Further examination employing correlation s...

In placing capital market imperfections at the center of emerging market crises, the theoretical literature has associated a liquidity crisis with low foreign investment and the exit of investors from the crisis economy. However, a liquidity crisis is equally consistent with an inflow of foreign capital in the form of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). To support this hypothesis, we use a firm-lev...