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Maintaining sufficient liquidity in the financial system is vital for financial stability. However, since returns on liquid assets are typically low, individual financial institutions may seek to hold fewer such assets, especially if they believe they can rely on other institutions for liquidity...
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proceeds. Following acquisition, constrained acquirers raise more debt and increase investments, consistent with experiencing …
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We study how adverse selection distorts equilibrium investment allocations in a Walrasian credit market with two-sided heterogeneity. Representative investor and partial equilibrium economies are special cases where investment allocations are distorted above perfect information allocations. By...
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finance by estimating the structural parameters of a canonical debt-contracting model with informational frictions. For this … spreads on publicly traded debt for about 900 U.S. firms over the period 1997Q1 to 2003Q3. Using nonlinear least squares, we … the expansionary period 1997-99, but rose sharply in 2000--especially for firms with higher ratios of debt to equity …
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