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the U.S. We then establish the quantitative result that home equity does not serve as informal collateral for unsecured …
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government debt. The safest governments inefficiently restrict the amount of high quality debt that could be used as collateral …
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We analyze a standard environment of adverse selection in credit markets. In our environment, entrepreneurs who are privately informed about the quality of their projects need to borrow in order to invest. Conventional wisdom says that, in this class of economies, the competitive equilibrium is...
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We use a unique data set to analyse how UK banks deal with small to medium size distressed firms both inside and outside bankruptcy. The approach to bankruptcy is contract-based, with lenders and borrowers relying on procedures written into the debt contract, and where the courts are largely...
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The paper studies the causes of the current financial crisis and considers proposals for mitigation and prevention of future crises. The crisis is was the product of a ‘perfect storm’ bringing together a number of microeconomic and macroeconomic pathologies. Among the microeconomic systemic...
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collateral requirements by banks may lead to a further decrease in the level of economic efficiency attained. We discuss bank …
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rejects marginally profitable projects. Collateral mitigates this inefficiency by 'flattening' the local lender’s payoff …-à-vis transaction lenders lead to higher collateral requirements, thus strengthening the role of collateral in local lending …
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This paper provides new insights into the nature of relationship lending by analysing the role of collateral and its … indicate that the use of collateral in loan contracts is mainly driven by aspects of relationship lending and renegotiation … risk. Relationship lenders do require more collateral from their debtors than normal lenders for two main reasons. First …
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This paper analyzes the effect of creditor protection on the volatility of stock market returns. Our application of the Tobin’s q model predicts that credit protection reduces the probability of oscillations between binding and nonbinding states of the credit constraint, which result from...
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bidders are more concerned with the loser’s nightmare, collateral, and future interest rate reductions by the ECB. Small and …
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