Afanasyeva, Elena; Güntner, Jochen - 2018 - This version: January 2018
partial equilibrium, the bank prefers a higher leverage ratio of borrowers, when the profitability of lending increases, e … costly state verification (CSV) problem by introducing a risk-neutral monopolistic bank, which maximizes profits subject to … borrower participation. While the bank can diversify idiosyncratic default risk, it bears the aggregate risk. We show that, in …