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tend not to face higher interest rates because they provide collateral. This paper illustrates these effects in a model and …
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Many assets derive their value not only from future cash flows but also from their ability to serve as collateral. In … this paper, we investigate this collateral value and its impact on asset returns in an infinite-horizon general equilibrium … model with heterogeneous agents facing collateral constraints for borrowing. We document that borrowing against collateral …
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How does asset encumbrance affect the fragility of intermediaries subject to rollover risk? We offer a model in which a bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt...
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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European merchants in the absence of modern enforcement technologies. This paper shows how this mechanism helps to overcome enforcement problems in anonymous buyer/seller transactions. In a...
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their collateral supply is determined by their ex ante securities holdings and repo rates. Second, it makes use of the …
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The reuse of collateral can support the efficient allocation of assets in the financial system. Exploiting a novel … dataset, we quantify banks’ collateral reuse at the security level. We show that banks substantially increase their reuse of … collateral in response to scarcity induced by central bank asset purchases. Repo rates are less sensitive to purchase …
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In this paper we set up a New-Keynesian model with a heterogenous banking sector to analyze liquidity problems on the interbank market. The presence of an interbank market is essential to consider a situation where an increased liquidity supply by the central bank is only partially passed on to...
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their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire … Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central banks increase the set of eligible collateral assets. However, if the … investigate how unlimited liquidity provision affects collateral prices. Also, I match banks' trades with their balance sheet and …
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collateral as measured by tangible fixed assets plays a critical role. In particular, bank flow shocks increase the credit supply … to firms and sectors with more real estate collateral. Higher credit supply then leads firms to hire and invest more …
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