This paper studies the relation between supplier-base concentration and corporate cash policy, using unique data on supplier information disclosed by Chinese listed firms between 2007 and 2020. We find that customer firms with more concentrated supplier bases tend to hold higher levels of cash...

We propose a unified framework to study liquidity provision by debt-issuing versus equity-issuing financial intermediaries. We show that both types of intermediaries provide liquidity by insuring against idiosyncratic liquidity risks as in Diamond and Dybvig (1983) but with distinct frictions....