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Bankruptcy Exemption of Repo Markets : Too Much Today for Too Little Tomorrow?
Acharya, Viral V.; Anshuman, V. Ravi; Viswanathan, S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
the cost of ex-post inefficiency when there are adverse aggregate shocks to the fundamental quality of collateral … shocks by engaging in collateral liquidations. Financial arbitrage by less leveraged financial intermediaries equilibrates … returns from acquiring collateral at fire-sale prices and returns from real-sector lending, inducing higher lending rates, a …
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Contingent Credit Under Stress
Acharya, Viral V.; Jager, Maximilian; Steffen, Sascha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Over the past two decades, banks have increasingly focused on offering contingent credit in the form of credit lines as a primary means of corporate borrowing. We review the existing body of research regarding the rationales for banks' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit...
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How Collateral Laws Shape Lending and Sectoral Activity
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2016
We demonstrate the central importance of creditors' ability to use "movable" assets as collateral (as distinct from … with weak collateral laws, relative to immovable assets, and that lending is biased towards the use of immovable assets …. Using sector-level data, we find that weak movable collateral laws create distortions in the allocation of resources that …
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Monetary Transmission Through Bank Securities Portfolios
Greenwald, Daniel; Krainer, John; Paul, Pascal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the transmission of monetary policy through bank securities portfolios using granular supervisory data on U.S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during the 2022-2023 monetary tightening cycle extended less...
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Know Your Customer : Informed Trading by Banks
Haselmann, Rainer; Leuz, Christian; Schreiber, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study analyzes information production and trading behavior of banks with lending relationships. We combine trade-by-trade supervisory data and credit-registry data to examine banks' proprietary trading in borrower stocks around a large number of corporate events. We find that relationship...
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The Benefits and Costs of Secured Debt
Benmelech, Efraim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
cornerstone of credit markets in most societies since antiquity. The ability to seize and sell collateral reduces the creditor …
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Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics
Antill, Samuel; Wang, Neng; Jiang, Zhaoli - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Secured lenders have recently demanded a new condition in distressed debt restructurings: competing secured lenders must lose priority. We model the implications of this "creditor-on-creditor violence" trend. In our dynamic model, secured lenders enjoy higher priority in default. However,...
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Q-Monetary Transmission
Jeenas, Priit; Lagos, Ricardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the effects of monetary-policy-induced changes in Tobin's q on corporate investment and capital structure. We develop a theory of the mechanism, provide empirical evidence, evaluate the ability of the quantitative theory to match the evidence, and quantify the relevance for monetary...
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The Secular Decline in Private Firm Leverage
Dobridge, Christine L.; Gilje, Erik P.; Whitten, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using firm-level administrative tax data on the 43% of business liabilities in the United States tied to privately held firms, we document dramatic reductions in leverage since the Great Recession. Leverage for the average private firm fell fifteen percent between 2004 and 2018. In contrast,...
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Taxes Depress Corporate Borrowing : Evidence from Private Firms
Ivanov, Ivan T.; Pettit, Luke; Whited, Toni Marion - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use variation in state corporate income tax rates to re-examine the relation between taxes and corporate leverage. Contrary to prior research, we find that corporate leverage rises after tax cuts for small private firms. An estimated dynamic equilibrium model shows that tax cuts make capital...
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