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Practices have been cited frequently as an indicator of general credit availability. Results from the Board's survey suggest …
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Central bank or International Monetary Fund lending should be regarded as a line of credit, analogous to private line-of-credit … products. Contractual provisions in private line-of-credit arrangements are designed to control managerial moral hazard and … provide a means for profit-maximizing lenders to credibly commit to withdraw credit and induce closure when appropriate. The …
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Short-term credit plays an essential part in the business financing process. In view of its importance in the nation …'s credit structure, the market for short-term business credit receives a great deal of attention from financial analysts. …
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This paper presents a simple general equilibrium model of the commercial loan market in which liquidity constraints arise endogenously because of imperfect information and imperfect competition. The information and market structure generate a discriminatory interest rate schedule and loan size...
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Models of banks operating under limited liability with deposit insurance and employee incentive problems are used to analyze how banker compensation contracts can contribute to bank risk shifting. The first model is a multi-agent, moral-hazard model, where each agent (e.g. a loan officer)...
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Linear programming is an important method for computing solutions to private information problems. The method is applicable for arbitrary specifications of the references and technology. Unfortunately, as the cardinality of underlying sets increases the programs quickly become too large to...
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Banks were substantially deregulated during the 1980s. Interest costs rose faster than operating expenses (capital, labor) were reduced. As a result, measured technical change in banking was negative: it averaged -0.8% to -1.4% a year over 1977-88. Technical change was measured three different...
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The paper presents the results of research conducted as part of the American Enterprise Institute's project on financial services regulation. It is a revision of a paper that later appeared in a volume providing a comprehensive review of financial regulatory policy entitled, Restructuring...
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Loan guarantees are arguably the most widely used policy intervention in credit markets, especially for consumers. This … consumption loans. Our work is novel as it studies loan guarantees in a rich dynamic model where credit allocation is allowed to …
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In this paper, we develop a normative theory of unsecured consumer credit and personal bankruptcy based on the optimal … the main qualitative features of personal credit markets and bankruptcy law that actually exist in the United States. …
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