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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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Mortgage Default, Foreclosure, and Bankruptcy
Li, Wenli - 2009
In this paper we examine the relationship between homeowners' bankruptcy decisions and their mortgage default decisions and the relationship between homeowners' bankruptcy decisions and lenders' decisions to foreclose. In theory, both relationships could be either substitutes or complements....
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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 Dynamics of Adjustable-Rate Subprime Mortgage Default : a Structural Estimation
Fang, Hanming - 2016
We present a dynamic structural model of subprime adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers making payment decisions taking into account possible consequences of different degrees of delinquency from their lenders. We empirically implement the model using unique data sets that contain information...
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Using Bankruptcy to Reduce Foreclosures : Does Strip-Down of Mortgages Affect the Supply of Mortgage Credit?
Li, Wenli - 2014
We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down"--that is, reducing the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is provided by a series of U.S. Circuit Court of...
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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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