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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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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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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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Optimal Regulation of Auditing
Pagano, Marco; Immordino, Giovanni - 2021
We study regulation of the auditing profession in a model where audit quality is unobservable and enforcing regulation is costly. The optimal audit standard falls short of the first-best audit quality, and is increasing in the riskiness of firms and in the amount of funding they seek. The model...
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The Emergence of the Global Fintech Market : Economic and Technological Determinants
Haddad, Christian - 2016
We investigate the economic and technological determinants inducing entrepreneurs to establish ventures with the purpose of reinventing financial technology (fintech). We find that countries witness more fintech startup formations when the latest technology is readily available, capital markets...
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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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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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