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This paper compares how cash and in-kind transfers affect local prices. Both types of transfers increase the demand for normal goods, but only in-kind transfers also increase supply. Hence, in-kind transfers should lead to lower prices than cash transfers, which helps consumers at the expense of...
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The long-run price elasticity of demand for credit is a key parameter for intertemporal modeling, policy levers, and lending practice. We use randomized interest rates, offered across 80 regions by Mexico's largest microlender, to identify a 29-month dollars-borrowed elasticity of -1.9. This...
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This paper examines the effect that the coexistence of small and large banks, with different interests in the international market, has on the debt renegotiation process. Making use of a reputational model, we argue that the presence of small banks implies that debtor countries have a harder...
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separate firm-borrowing shocks from bank-supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose … aggregate loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks. The high degree of … role for granular shocks as in Gabaix (2011). We show that idiosyncratic granular bank-supply shocks explain 30-40 percent …
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This paper is the first to study the effect of financial restatement on bank loan contracting. Compared with loans …
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In contrast to bonds, cov-lite loans do not require SEC registration and are not subject to securities laws. We show that this distinction plays an important role in firms' choice between funding through cov-lite loans and bonds and helps understand why the market share of cov-lite loans has...
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This paper examines the use of credit derivatives by US bank holding companies from 1999 to 2003 with assets in excess … of one billion dollars. Using the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bank Holding Company Database, we find that in 2003 … represent on average two thirds of the assets of bank holding companies with assets in excess of $1 billion. Few banks are net …
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We use spatial discontinuities associated with congressional district borders to identify the effect of political influences on American banks' lending. We show that recipients of the 2008 public capital injection program (TARP) increased mortgage and small business lending by 23% to 60% more in...
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. Using branch-level deposit rate data, we find little evidence for market discipline as rates are similar across bank … correlated with loan growth in other states in which their bank has some presence, suggesting internal capital markets help … reallocate the bank's funding …
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competitive interactions between banks and non-bank lenders (fintech firms). Trust enables lenders to have assured access to …
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