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liquidity may be related positively to the longer-term probability of default. Our empirical analysis confirms these predictions …
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We use survey data to study American households’ propensity to default when the value of their mortgage exceeds the value of their house even if they can afford to pay their mortgage (strategic default). We find that 26% of the existing defaults are strategic. We also find that no household...
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,000 loans over the period 2006:04 to 2008:12. We find robust evidence that the default rate on Islamic loans is less than half … the default rate on conventional loans. The evidence comes from a variety of specifications that contain pertinent … effects. For the same borrower taking both conventional and Islamic loans from the same bank, the hazard rate on Islamic loans …
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An iconic model with high leverage and overvalued collateral assets is used to illustrate the amplification mechanism driving asset prices to ‘overshoot’ equilibrium when an asset bubble bursts - threatening widespread insolvency and what Richard Koo calls a ‘balance sheet recession’....
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We consider the debt capacity of a risky asset when debt is being rolled over and there is a liquidation cost in case of default. We show that debt capacity depends on how information about the quality of the asset is revealed. When the information structure is based on “optimistic”...
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We develop a dynamic model to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency risk. The …. Using the model, we show that liquidity requirements have no long-run effects on default risk but may increase it in the …
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, the bank often finances a bidder in the auction, relaxing liquidity constraints. We show that the optimal bid strategy for …
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the land price bubble or the fall of the exchange rate. The initial fall in asset values is followed by the ‘knock …-on’ effects of the scramble for liquidity as companies sell land to satisfy their collateral requirements – causing land prices to …
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liquidity of their primary market, at the cost of reducing secondary market liquidity or even causing it to freeze. The degree … of transparency is inefficiently low if the social value of secondary market liquidity exceeds its private value. We … analyze various types of public intervention — mandatory transparency standards, provision of liquidity to distressed banks or …
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corporate lending rates, we find evidence that institutions with a liquidity deficiency turn to the long-term interbank rate as …We analyze the impact of non-compliance with a requirement similar to the Basel III Liquidity Coverage Ratio and its … non-compliance with a liquidity requirement causes banks to pay and charge higher interest rates as well as to increase …
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