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We provide empirical evidence of both (1) price dispersion and (2) credit rationing in the corporate loan market. We argue that these properties are caused by two factors: an adverse selection resulting from the information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers, and search frictions in...
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The determinants of corporate indebtedness have been one of the most debated issues in empirical corporate finance research. In the Indian context, a number of research papers focusing on the said issue emerged since the 1990s. These research studies classified borrowing (the explained variable)...
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We build a general equilibrium model of bank competition in which securitization is the banks�optimal choice. A …
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There is little consensus as to the cause of the housing bubble that precipitated the financial crisis of 2008. Numerous explanations exist: misguided monetary policy; a global savings surplus; government policies encouraging affordable homeownership; irrational consumer expectations of rising...
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The present paper reviews the causes that led to the financial crisis. Unlike other interpretations, this paper does not place main significance on a single source or on a set of causes. I consider all major standpoints highlighted by research and media prior, during and after the financial...
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This article analyses the effect of security price on the behaviour of bank securitization. We present a model of bank … securitization in which security price together with liquid constraints create the incentive for banks to originate and sell assets … incentive to conduct strategic securitization and the moral hazard problem is serious. Our main idea has been supported by the …
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The move from the originate-to-hold to originate-to-distribute model of lending profoundly transformed the functioning of credit markets and weakened the natural asset transformation function performed by financial intermediaries for centuries. This shift also compromised the role of banks in...
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We are neither economists nor academic scholars; however we are students of the markets having experienced the credit crunch on the front lines as institutional investors from a country that is neither in Europe nor is the United States (i.e. Canada). The credit crunch and related “Great...
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By using data from 8 depository institutions in Turkey we evaluate the drivers of securitization between 2004 and 2009 …. Our analysis shows that previous period securitization as well as bank equity, level of profits and asset size are …’s securitization in capital markets. Again, bank size, profitability and equity are also explanatory variables in making these accurate …
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This paper discusses the causes and the consequences of the financial crisis 2007-2008 with a focus on systemic risk management and the reform of the global financial architecture.
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