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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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, borrowers' default policies render binary options useful instruments for lenders in hedging the credit-risk component of their … and volatility in contrast to the exogenously assumed constant mean and volatility in many credit risk models. We consider … in upturns, compared to an economy without the presence of credit risk. …
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This … paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of …
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that contains detailed credit-file information on distressed lending relationships in Germany, including information on …
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When banks have an informational monopoly about their borrowers, the latter incentives can be thwarted by the fear that the return on their effort will be partly appropriated by their banks via high future interest rates. Banks can correct this incentive problem through a commitment to share...
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credit-fie information on distressed lending relationships in Germany. In particular, it includes information on bank pools …
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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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opportunities and asymmetric information in credit markets. We show that such features may lead to strategic considerations in the …
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and property prices is large, our results suggest that the direction of influence goes from property prices to bank credit …
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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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