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Uncertainty and the Cost of Bank vs. Bond Finance
Grimme, Christian - 2019
How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper … finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending … the value of the lending relationship and lowers the lending rate. Bond investors demand compensation for the increased …
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Modelling Persistence and Non-Linearities in the US Treasury 10-Year Bond Yields
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A.; Yaya, … - 2022
This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the …
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Debt as Safe Asset
Brunnermeier, Markus K.; Merkel, Sebastian; Sannikov, Yuliy - 2022
The price of a safe asset reflects not only the expected discounted future cash flows but also future service flows, since retrading allows partial insurance of idiosyncratic risk in an incomplete markets setting. This lowers the issuers’ interest burden and allows the government to run a...
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Social Finance
Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes - 2021
We review an empirical literature that studies the role of social interactions in driving economic and financial decision making. We first summarize recent work that documents an important role of social interactions in explaining household decisions in housing and mortgage markets. This...
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Cybercrime on the Ethereum Blockchain
Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2023
We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims' risk-taking and returns. Our difference-in-differences analysis of a sample of victims and matched non-victims suggests that victims increase their long-term total risk-taking and earn...
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Cybercrime on the Ethereum Blockchain
Hornuf, Lars; Momtaz, Paul P.; Nam, Rachel J.; Yuan, Ye - 2023
We propose a taxonomy of cybercrime on the Ethereum blockchain and examine how cybercrime impacts victims’ risk-taking and returns. Our difference-in-differences analysis of a sample of victims and matched non-victims suggests that victims increase their long-term total risk-taking and earn...
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When Pro-Poor Microcredit Institutions Favor Richer Borrowers - A Moral Hazard Story
Biancini, Sara; Venet, Baptiste; Ettinger, David - 2021
We suggest an explanation for the existence of “mission drift”, the tendency for Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to lend money to wealthier borrowers rather than to the very poor. We focus on the relationship between MFIs and external funding institutions. We assume that both the MFIs and...
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Marketplace Lending of SMEs
Cumming, Douglas J. - 2020
Peer-to-business lending refers to online platforms facilitating loans from individuals to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We conjecture that easy-to-understand risk ratings conveyed by the platform play a pronounced role in influencing the borrowing success of SMEs and that more...
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Drivers and obstacles to banking SMEs : the role of competition and the institutional framework
de la Torre, Augusto; Martínez Pería, María Soledad; … - 2009
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are important for employment and economic activity; however, they are perceived to lack adequate financing, which hampers their growth. As a consequence, governments have implemented a number of programs to foster SME lending and attention has focused on...
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'By a silken thread': Regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2013
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...
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