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Many adverse selection models of standard one-period debt contracts are based on the following seemingly innocuous assumptions. First, entrepreneurs have private information about the quality of their return distributions. Second, return distributions are ordered by the monotone likelihood-ratio...
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We study a financial market adverse selection model where all agents are endowed with initial wealth and choose to invest as entrepreneurs or financiers, or not to invest. We show that often a lack of outside finance leads to the emergence of financial markets where availability of outside...
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We study the interaction between private and public funding of innovative projects in the presence of adverse-selection based financing constraints. Government programmes allocating direct subsidies are based on ex-ante screening of the subsidy applications. This selection scheme may yield...
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liquidity and market efficiency. The one-day program consisted of an opening speech, six presentations, including three keynotes …
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We study the basic economic problem of choice between long-term and short-term commitments under a general characterization of uncertainty (aggregate uncertainty). When contingencies are contractible, a perfect market of Arrow-Debreau contingent claims implements the social optimum. When...
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This study utilises payment system data to analyse market participants’ liquidity usage and to trace interest rates … paid on overnight loans. Our aim is to examine how liquidity usage has changed during the years 2006–2/2011 and to combine …
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effective in reducing queuing in the systems at all levels of liquidity, but in particular when intra-day liquidity is scarce. …
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We study the long standing issue of whether markets can supply banks with sufficient liquidity or whether markets … model of Holmström and Tirole (1998) on the supply of liquidity to firms. H&Ts original model analyses liquidity supply to … problems associated with transitory liquidity outflows, even absent any change in a bank's value. Our premise is that the scope …
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Averaging the reserve requirement is often considered an efficient way to reduce volatility at the very short end of the money market yield curve. The Bank of Finland began to apply an averaging provision at the beginning of October 1995. Notably, the volatility of the overnight rate of interest...
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