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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,...

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Term Structure and Cyclicity of Value-at-Risk : Consequences for the Solvency Capital Requirement

Bec, Frederique; Gollier, Christian - 2021

This paper explores empirically the link between French equities returns Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the state of financial markets cycle. The econometric analysis is based on a simple vector autoregression setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2008Q3, it turns out that the k-year VaR of French...

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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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Endogenous Systemic Liquidity Risk

Cao, Jin - 2013

Traditionally, aggregate liquidity shocks are modelled as exogenous events. Extending our previous work (Cao & Illing …, 2008), this paper analyses the adequate policy response to endogenous systemic liquidity risk. We analyse the feedback … between lender of last resort policy and incentives of private banks, determining the aggregate amount of liquidity available …

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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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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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Rumors and Runs in Opaque Markets : Evidence from Panic of 1907

Fohlin, Caroline - 2016

impact of information asymmetry during the liquidity freeze and market run of October 1907 - one of the most severe financial …

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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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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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