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ante risk assessment and derive risk premia for every balance sheet item where liabilities are differentiated according to … priority rights. We find that risk premia reflect both idiosyncratic risk and risk of contagion (network risk). Moreover, we … show that network risk magnifies the gap between the risk premia of equity and debt. We also perform comparative statics …
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framework. We test the model’s predictions in a laboratory experiment. Both in theory and in the experiment diagnostic … uncertainty decreases the rate of efficient service provision and leads to less trade. In theory, insurance also decreases the …
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asset prices and corporate default risk. Our model includes two empirically grounded nominal frictions: fixed nominal …
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How damaging are uncertainty shocks during extreme events such as the great recession and the Covid-19 outbreak? Can monetary policy limit output losses in such situations? We use a nonlinear VAR framework to document the large response of real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during...
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We model a risk-averse firm owner who wants to maximize the intertemporal expected utility of firm’s dividends. The … solved in a quasiexplicit form by computing both the optimal dividend and the optimal debt. Finally, we calibrate the model … particular, our results show that the optimal dividend is smooth over time and that leverage is predominantly constant over time …
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. This paper calculates the possible size of such a green dividend of redistribution in 26 countries and concludes that, for …. If the redistribution introduces inefficiencies that lead to total income losses, the negative green dividend, otherwise …
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We propose a simple model of borrower optimism in competitive lending markets with asymmetric information. Borrowers in our model engage in self-deception to arrive at a belief that optimally trades off the anticipatory utility benefits and material costs of optimism. Lenders' contract design...
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In this article we use a stochastic model with one representative firm to study business tax policy under default risk …
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This short article studies the tax effects on a start-up investment decision under uncertainty. Since the representative firm can decide both when to invest and how much to borrow, the distortive effects are twofold. We thus show that the deadweight loss (namely, the ratio between the welfare...
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advantage in building infrastructure. At the same time, hard budget constraints for PPPs introduce a bankruptcy risk and …
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