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Recent theories of crisis put lending booms at the root of financial collapses. Yet lending booms may be a natural consequence of economic development and fluctuations. So are lending booms dangerous? In this paper, we investigate empirically this question using a broad sample of lending boom...
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We study rollover risk and collateral value in a dynamic asset pricing model with endogenous debt financing by … news. We demonstrate the optimality of the maximum riskless short-term debt financing for optimistic borrowers even in the …
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We develop a dynamic model of debt runs on a firm, which invests in an illiquid asset by rolling over staggered short …-term debt contracts. We derive a unique threshold equilibrium, in which creditors coordinate their asynchronous rollover … the roles played by volatility, illiquidity and debt maturity in driving debt runs, as well as on firms' capital adequacy …
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establishment-level data, we show that firms that tightened their debt capacity in the run-up to the Great Recession ("highleverage … debt capacity ("low-leverage firms"). In fact, all of the job losses associated with falling house prices during the Great …
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constrained firms. In addition to the classical tradeoff between the expected tax advantages of debt and bankruptcy costs, we … liquidity management policy for the firm. An important new cost of debt financing in this context is an endogenous debt … servicing cost: debt payments drain the firm's valuable liquidity reserves and thus impose higher expected external financing …
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Over the past two decades, banks have increasingly focused on offering contingent credit in the form of credit lines as a primary means of corporate borrowing. We review the existing body of research regarding the rationales for banks' provision of liquidity insurance in the form of credit...
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We study the effects of credit shocks in a model with heterogeneous entrepreneurs, financing constraints, and a realistic firm size distribution. As entrepreneurial firms can grow only slowly and rely heavily on retained earnings to expand the size of their business in this set-up, we show that,...
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membership (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). A Multi-Annual Fiscal Adjustment Strategy (MAFAS) and a Pre …
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and borrowers ample reason to care whether nonperforming debts are restructured. One implication of the way in which debt … argument is moral hazard, but (unlike in much of the recent literature of emerging market debt problems) what is central here …
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We study impacts of a cash transfer program with no means-test and no work restrictions: the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Disability Compensation program. Our empirical strategy leverages quasi-random assignment of veterans claiming mental disorder disability to examiners who vary in...
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