securities with the highest yield and lowest collateral quality among ABS with the same regulatory risk weight. This ABS …

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 and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …

risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …

the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for …

between borrowers and lenders, we quantify the value of using patents as collateral with regard to capital access. Although … patent collateral and access to capital. We make use of mandatory collateral registry data in Sweden and the Netherlands to …-in-difference regressions on firms' debt allows deducting treatment effects of using patents as collateral. We find that patent pledging enables …

study the intended and unintended consequences of asset purchases in the repo market with Bund collateral. Bunds that are …