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Joint Ventures as a Commitment Device Against Lobbies

Berardi, Nicoletta; Seabright, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper investigates a hitherto unexplored rationale for firms to enter into joint ventures. We model risky projects with autocorrelated productivity shocks as creating an option value of investing over time so that later investments benefit from the information revealed by the realization of...

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Collateral Vs. Project Screening: A Model Of Lazy Banks

Manove, Michael; Padilla, Atilano Jorge; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

market equilibria in which cheap credit is inappropriately emphasized over project screening. Restrictions on collateral …

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Equilibrium and Welfare in Markets with Financially Constrained Arbitrageurs

Gromb, Denis; Vayanos, Dimitri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We propose a multi-period model in which competitive arbitrageurs exploit discrepancies between the prices of two identical risky assets, traded in segmented markets. Arbitrageurs need to collateralize separately their positions in each asset, and this implies a financial constraint limiting...

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Financial Distress and Bank Restructuring of Small to Medium Size UK Companies

Franks, Julian R; Sussman, Oren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We use a unique data set to analyse how UK banks deal with small to medium size distressed firms both inside and outside bankruptcy. The approach to bankruptcy is contract-based, with lenders and borrowers relying on procedures written into the debt contract, and where the courts are largely...

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Lessons from the 2007 Financial Crisis

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The paper studies the causes of the current financial crisis and considers proposals for mitigation and prevention of future crises. The crisis is was the product of a ‘perfect storm’ bringing together a number of microeconomic and macroeconomic pathologies. Among the microeconomic systemic...

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Banking (Conservatively) With Optimists

Manove, Michael; Padilla, Atilano Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

collateral requirements by banks may lead to a further decrease in the level of economic efficiency attained. We discuss bank …

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A Lender-Based Theory of Collateral

Inderst, Roman; Mueller, Holger M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

rejects marginally profitable projects. Collateral mitigates this inefficiency by 'flattening' the local lender’s payoff …-à-vis transaction lenders lead to higher collateral requirements, thus strengthening the role of collateral in local lending …

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Collateral, Default Risk, and Relationship Lending: An Empirical Study on Financial Contracting

Krahnen, Jan Pieter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

This paper provides new insights into the nature of relationship lending by analysing the role of collateral and its … indicate that the use of collateral in loan contracts is mainly driven by aspects of relationship lending and renegotiation … risk. Relationship lenders do require more collateral from their debtors than normal lenders for two main reasons. First …

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Bidding and Performance in Repo Auctions: Evidence from ECB Open Market Operations

Bindseil, Ulrich; Nyborg, Kjell G; Strebulaev, Ilya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

bidders are more concerned with the loser’s nightmare, collateral, and future interest rate reductions by the ECB. Small and …

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Creditor Protection and Stock Price Volatility

Hale, Galina B; Razin, Assaf; Tong, Hui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of creditor protection on the volatility of stock market returns. Our application of the Tobin’s q model predicts that credit protection reduces the probability of oscillations between binding and nonbinding states of the credit constraint, which result from...

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