Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60895 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 511
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
The recent crisis highlighted the importance of globally active banks in linking markets. One channel for this linkage is the liquidity management of these banks, specifically the regular flow of funds between parent banks and their affiliates in diverse foreign markets. We use the Great Recession as an opportunity to identify the balance-sheet shocks to parent banks in the United States and then explore which features of foreign affiliates are associated with protecting, for example, their status as important locations in sourcing funding or as destinations for foreign investment activity. We show that distance from the parent organization plays a significant role in this allocation, where distance is bankaffiliate specific and depends on the location's ex ante relative importance in local funding pools and overall foreign investment strategies. These flows are a form of global interdependence previously unexplored in the literature on international shock transmission.
Subjects: 
bank
global
liquidity
transmission
capital markets
crisis
contagion
JEL: 
E44
F36
G32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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