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Land Collateral and Labor Market Dynamics in France
Kaas, Leo - 2014
and labor market frictions. The value of collateral is driven by the forward-looking dynamics of the land price, which …
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Collateral and its Substitutes in Emerging Markets' Lending
Menkhoff, Lukas - 2013
Due to opaque information and weak enforcement in emerging loan markets, the need for collateral is high, whereas … borrowers lack adequate assets to pledge as collateral. How is this puzzle solved? We find for a representative sample from … Northeast Thailand that indeed most loans do not include any tangible assets as collateral. Instead, lenders enforce collateral …
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Loans, Insurance and Failures in the Credit Market for Students
Del Rey, Elena - 2011
In the education literature, it is generally acknowledged that both credit and insurance for students are rationed. In order to provide a rationale for these observations, we present a model with perfectly competitive banks and risk averse students who have private information on their ability...
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Financial Stability and Monetary Policy - A Framework
Illing, Gerhard - 2021
The paper presents a stylised framework to analyse conditions under which monetary policy contributes to amplified movements in the housing market. Extending work by Hyun Shin (2005), the paper analyses self enforcing feedback mechanisms resulting in amplifier effects in a credit constrained...
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An Extended Macro-Finance Model with Financial Factors
Dewachter, Hans - 2013
This paper extends the benchmark Macro-Finance model by introducing, next to the standard macroeconomic factors, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED spread while the return-forecasting (risk premium) factor...
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Financial Stability in Europe : Banking and Sovereign Risk
Bruha, Jan - 2017
We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955275
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Flexible Prices and Leverage
D'Acunto, Francesco - 2017
The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...
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Cross-Border Banking in Regulated Markets : Is Financial Integration Desirable?
Haufler, Andreas - 2016
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...
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Financial Frictions and Inflation Differentials in a Monetary Union
Hristov, Nikolay - 2010
This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation differentials can be explained by cross-country differences concerning the characteristics of financial markets. Our results suggest that empirically plausible degrees of...
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What is a Financial Crisis? Efficiently Measuring Real-Time Perceptions of Financial Market Stress with an Application to Financial Crisis Budget Cycles
Gandrud, Christopher - 2015
Comparative quantitative research into the causes, responses to, and effects of banking crisis uses two series of crisis data: Reinhart and Rogoff (2009, 2010) and Laeven and Valencia (2013, and their predecessors). While these data sets provide broad coverage, the measures they code have...
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