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Complementarities and Games: New Developments

Vives, Xavier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The theory of monotone comparative statics and supermodular games is presented as the appropriate tool to model complementarities. The approach, which has not yet been fully incorporated into the standard toolbox of researchers, makes the analysis intuitive and simple, helps in deriving new...

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A Model of Credit Risk, Optimal Policies and Asset Prices

Basak, Suleyman; Shapiro, Alex - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the optimal policies of borrowers (firms or individuals) who may default subject to default costs, and analyses the asset pricing implications. Borrowers defaulting under adverse economic conditions may, despite incurring default costs, emerge as wealthier than non-borrowers...

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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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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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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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Sovereign Default Risk and Bank Fragility in Financially Integrated Economies

Bolton, Patrick; Jeanne, Olivier - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

government debt. The safest governments inefficiently restrict the amount of high quality debt that could be used as collateral …

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Multiple Lenders and Corporate Distress: Evidence on Debt Restructuring

Brunner, Antje; Krahnen, Jan Pieter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In the recent theoretical literature on lending risk, the common pool problem in multi-bank relationships has been analysed extensively. In this Paper we address this topic empirically, relying on a unique panel dataset that includes detailed credit-fie information on distressed lending...

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Banks Exposure to Interest Rate Risk and The Transmission of Monetary Policy

Landier, Augustin; Sraer, David; Thesmar, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We show that banks' cash flow exposure to interest rate risk, or income gap, plays a crucial role in their lending behavior following monetary policy shocks. In a first step, we show that the sensitivity of bank profits to interest rates increases significantly with their income gap, even when...

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Bank Lending and Property Prices in Hong Kong

Gerlach, Stefan; Peng, Wensheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper studies the relationship between residential property prices and lending in Hong Kong. This is an interesting topic for three reasons. First, swings in property prices have been extremely large and frequent in Hong Kong. Second, under the currency board regime, monetary policy cannot...

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