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estimate the model using a rich dataset from a group lending program in India. The estimation results support our model …
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This essay shows that government credit-allocation schemes generate incentive conflicts that undermine the quality of bank supervision and eventually produce banking crisis. For political reasons, most countries establish a regulatory culture that embraces three economically contradictory...
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EU financial safety nets are social contracts that assign uncertain benefits and burdens to taxpayers in different member countries. To help national officials to assess their taxpayers' exposures to loss from partner countries, this paper develops a way to estimate how well markets and...
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We examine empirically how legal origin, creditor rights, property rights, legal formalism, and financial development affect the design of price and non-price terms of bank loans in almost 60 countries. Our results support the law and finance view that private contracts reflect differences in...
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Contemporary bank governance is criticized for manager-dominated (insider) boards of directors, but from the beginning of the nineteenth century, bank presidents appear also to have operated as chairmen of the boards of directors. However, the managers were constrained by a variety of rules that...
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This paper investigates whether the securitization of corporate bank loans had an impact on the price of corporate debt … spread than that of loans that are not subsequently securitized. To identify the particular role of securitization in loan … likelihood of securitization. We document that Term Loan B facilities, facilities originated by banks that originate CLOs, and …
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For nearly a decade prior to the collapse of structured finance markets in late 2007, securitization by collateralized … whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of … underperform the rest of the loan portfolio. Overall, we argue that the securitization of corporate loans is fundamentally …
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become significantly more favorable due to securitization. Securitization also leads to an expansion in credit on the …. Finally, the 2008 collapse in securitization leads to a reversal in local lending channel …
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-rated tranches. We find, however, that banks active in securitization held more highly-rated tranches. Such a result can be …
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investor wealth drives the demand for riskless debt and indirectly for securitization, ii) intermediary assets and leverage …
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