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. However, theory does not tell us a lot about the economic rationale for relationship lending in the context of multiple bank …
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In the conventional literature related to investment decisions, less attention has been paid to the length of maturity when investment is debt-financed. In such a case a firm pays the creditor not only the sum of annual interest (initial investment cost multiplied by real interest rate) for the...
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This paper presents a dynamic theory of housing market fluctuations. It develops a life-cycle model where households …. The market interaction of young credit-constrained households with older or richer unconstrained households generates the … following results. (1) Current income of young credit-constrainded households affects housing prices independentlyof aggregate …
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The restructuring of a bankrupt company often entails the sale of such company. This paper suggests a way to sell the company that maximizes the creditors' proceeds. The key to this proposal is the option left to the creditors to retain a fraction of the shares of the company. Indeed, by...
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In this paper an empirical model is developed where the collective household model is used as a basic framework to … describe the time allocation problem. The collective model views household behavior as the outcome of maximizing a household … the main accent still lies on the development of theory. The novelty of this paper is that we empirically estimate the two …
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analysis of household behavior utilizes a modified version of Gary Becker's model of the household as a combined producer-consumer. …
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In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...
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' liquidity constraints. We also demonstrate that increasing the rate of inflation can be welfare improving when credit rationing …
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This paper addresses the credit channel in Germany by using aggregate data. We present a stylized model of the banking …. Evidence in support of the credit channel can be reported. …
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the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in Germany. We have at our disposal … measure of creditworthiness, we find that credit constraints are important for a subset of firms. Sortings by firm size or …
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