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The Greek Debt Crisis : Likely Causes, Mechanics and Outcomes

Arghyrou, Michael - 2010

We use insights from the literature on currency crises to offer an analytical treatment of the crisis in the market for Greek government bonds. We argue that the crisis itself and its escalating nature are very likely to be the result of: (a) steady deterioration of Greek macroeconomic...

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Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms

Gale, Douglas M. - 2012

We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when markets are illiquid. This incompleteness is the only friction in the model and the...

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Business Cycle Effects of Credit and Technology Shocks in a DSGE Model with Firm Defaults

Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...

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Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation : The Impact of Policy

Berka, Martin - 2013

This paper studies loan activity in a context where banks must follow Basel Accord-type rules and acquire financing from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type of policy could revigorate an economy in a trough. We...

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Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures : Does Strip-Down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?

Li, Wenli - 2014

We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage “strip-down” as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is...

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Optimal Risk-Sharing in Mortgage Contracts : The Effects of Potential Prepayment and Default

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2014

Much of the literature on the economics of mortgage markets has studied the FRM-ARM choice made by individual borrowers. However, to decide if the outcome of such a choice is efficient or approximately so, it is necessary to explore the question of optimal risk-sharing in mortgage contracts. But...

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Creditor Passivity : The Effects of Bank Competition and Institutions on the Strategic Use of Bankruptcy Filings

Hainz, Christa - 2021

Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby,...

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Debt Recovery in Firm Liquidations : Do Liquidation Trustees Matter?

Cepec, Jaka - 2016

Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the … functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure … of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime, depends on the characteristics of the trustee delegated the administration …

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Default Predictors and Credit Scoring Models for Retail Banking

Kočenda, Evžen - 2013

This paper develops a specification of the credit scoring model with high discriminatory power to analyze data on loans at the retail banking market. Parametric and non- parametric approaches are employed to produce three models using logistic regression (parametric) and one model using...

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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data

Flam, Harry - 2011

Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects on the extensive margin and to obtain controls for firm...

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