Firms with greater financial flexibility should be better able to fund a revenue shortfall resulting from the COVID-19 shock and benefit less from policy responses. We find that firms with high financial flexibility within an industry experience a stock price drop lower by 26% or 9.7 percentage...

I use a matched buyer-supplier sample of U.S. industrial firms to investigate the impact of customer risk on suppliers' choice between cash and lines of credit as a source of liquidity. I find that customer risk decreases the reliance on bank-managed liquidity insurance relative to cash. This...

I quantify a new motive of holding cash through the channel of financing risk. I show that if the access to future credit is risky, firms may issue long-term debt now and save funds in cash to secure the current credit capacity for the future. I structurally estimate the model and find that this...