Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60707 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 108
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
Evidence in this paper suggests that a close banking relationship - a loan commitment in particularparticular, relax cash flow and cash management constraints on firms. Given firms' prospects (Q), the investment and cash flow correlation is substantially lower when firms have a bank loan commitment. The difference in cash flow sensitivity reflects differences in firms' cash management practices in the face of cash flow shocks. Firms with a commitment simply run down their stocks of cash (or borrow more) when their cash flow falls but their investment prospects remain strong. The different investment-cash flow sensitivities and cash management practices suggest that the firms with a bank commitment relationship are less financially constrained.
JEL: 
G21
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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