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loans are reciprocal in the sense that lead arrangers also participate in loans that are led by their participant lenders. I … monitoring effort enhances lead arrangers' ability to profit from participating in loans led by others. The model generates ….3% less of the loans with reciprocity than those without reciprocity, (ii) the average interest spread over LIBOR on drawn …
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-guarantee program. Using a panel data set of SBA-guaranteed loans we assess whether SBA-guaranteed lending has an observable impact on …
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The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund’s impact on credit union activity, using hitherto little studied U.S. Treasury data. The CDFI Fund grants increase lending at credit...
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-guarantee program. Using a panel data set of SBA-guaranteed loans we assess whether SBA-guaranteed lending has an observable impact on …
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An examination of the role of foreign banks in the loan sales market, finding that the motives for loan sales and … purchases differ between U.S. and foreign-owned banks and between foreign banks of different regions, which is consistent with … foreign banks' using the market for diversification. …
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Foreign-exchange operations did not end after the United States stopped its activist approach to intervention. Japan …, Switzerland has transacted in foreign exchange both for monetary and exchange rate purposes, and key central banks have used swap … their actions may hamper the development of their own foreign-exchange markets. China’s undervalued exchange rate is …
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This paper describes the United States’ first line of defense against shortcomings in the Bretton Woods system, which threatened the system’s continuation as early as 1960. The exposition describes the Federal Reserve’s use of swap lines both to provide cover for central banks’ unwanted...
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The authors develop a two-country real business cycle model and examine its consistency with the behavior of relative prices, and the model's implications for economic aggregates at the sectoral level.
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