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Patent collateral and access to debt
Bracht, Felix; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2022 - This version: August 3, 2022
We investigate how intangible capital in form of intellectual property, such as patents, might mitigate financing … between borrowers and lenders, we quantify the value of using patents as collateral with regard to capital access. Although … this mechanism of patents in financing further R&D is not new, we are the first to provide a treatment effects study of …
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Subjective evaluation versus public information
Bester, Helmut; Münster, Johannes - 2013
This paper studies a principal-agent relation in which the principal's private information about the agent's effort choice is more accurate than a noisy public performance measure. For some contingencies the optimal contract has to specify ex post inefficiencies in the form of inefficient...
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Credence goods, costly diagnosis, and subjective evaluation
Bester, Helmut; Dahm, Matthias - 2014
We study contracting between a consumer and an expert. The expert can invest in diagnosis to obtain a noisy signal about whether a low-cost service is sufficient or whether a high-cost treatment is required to solve the consumerś problem. This involves moral hazard because diagnosis effort and...
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R&D, capital investments, and financing under repeated moral hazard
Anderson, Ronald W.; Nyborg, Kjell G. - 2000
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Asset prices, collateral, and unconventional monetary policy in a DSGE model
Hilberg, Björn; Hollmayr, Josef - 2013
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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Asset encumbrance, bank funding and financial fragility
Ahnert, Toni; Anand, Kartik; Gai, Prasanna; Chapman, James - 2016
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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A theory of crowdfunding : a mechanism design approach with demand uncertainty and moral hazard
Strausz, Roland - 2017
financing, which focuses on controlling moral hazard. …
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Quantification of qualitative data using ordered probit models with an application to a business survey in the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2000
This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...
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Optimal procurement of a credence good under limited liability
Bester, Helmut; Ouyang, Yaofu - 2017
This paper analyzes the optimal contract for a consumer to procure a credence good from an expert when (i) the expert might misrepresent his private information about the consumer’s need, (ii) the expert might not choose the requested service since his choice of treatment is non-observable,...
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Collateral requirements and asset prices
Brumm, Johannes; Grill, Michael; Kubler, Felix; … - 2013
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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