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Asset Liquidity and International Portfolio Choice

Geromichalos, Athanasios - 2011

over faster than domestic assets because the former have desirable liquidity properties, but represent inferior saving …

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Optimal Taxation in the Presence of Bailouts

Panageas, Stavros - 2010

The termination of a representative financial firm due to excessive leverage may lead to substantial bankruptcy costs. A government in the tradition of Ramsey (1927) may be inclined to provide transfers to the firm so as to prevent its liquidation and the associated deadweight costs. It is shown...

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Bailouts, the Incentive to Manage Risk, and Financial Crises

Panageas, Stavros - 2010

A firm's termination leads to bankruptcy costs. This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm's debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms. Because of this implicit guarantee, firm shareholders have an incentive to increase volatility in order to exploit the...

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Fire Sales in a Model of Complexity

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

Financial assets provide return and liquidity services to their holders. However, during severe financial crises many … asset prices plummet, destroying their liquidity provision function at the worst possible time. In this paper we present a … not control or understand. The liquidity of the market quickly vanishes and a financial crisis ensues. The model exhibits …

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Credit Market Freezes

Benmelech, Efraim - 2017

Credit market freezes in which debt issuance declines dramatically and market liquidity evaporates are typically … bonds declined, and secondary credit markets became highly illiquid. In this paper we analyze liquidity in bond markets … during financial crises and compare two main theories of liquidity in markets: (1) asymmetric information and adverse …

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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...

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The Agglomeration of Bankruptcy

Benmelech, Efraim - 2014

This paper identifies a new channel through which bankrupt firms impose negative externalities on non-bankrupt peers. The bankruptcy and liquidation of a retail chain weakens the economies of agglomeration in any given local area, reducing the attractiveness of retail centers for remaining...

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A Dual Liquidity Model for Emerging Markets

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2021

emerging economy, and those affecting borrowing from foreign lenders. This 'dual liquidity' model offers a parsimonious …

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Fiscal Policy and Financial Depth

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2021

Most economists and observers place the lack of fiscal discipline at the core of the recent Argentine crisis. This begs the question of how countries like Belgium or Italy (pre-Maastricht) could run large fiscal deficits and accumulate debts far beyond those of Argentina, without experiencing...

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Bankruptcy and the Collateral Channel

Benmelech, Efraim - 2010

Do bankrupt firms impose negative externalities on their non-bankrupt competitors? We propose and analyze a collateral channel in which a firm's bankruptcy reduces collateral values of other industry participants, thereby increasing the cost of external debt finance industry wide. To identify...

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