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In this paper, we provide a suite of tools for empirical market design, including optimal nonlinear pricing in intensive-margin consumer demand, as well as a broad class of related adverse-selection models. Despite significant data limitations, we are able to derive informative bounds on demand...
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We study the spatial expansion of banks in response to banking deregulation in the 1980s and 90s. During this period, large banks expanded rapidly, mostly by adding new branches in new locations, while many small banks exited. We document that large banks sorted into the densest markets, but...
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Does emergency credit prevent long-term financial distress? We study the causal effects of government-provided recovery … bankruptcy, increase employment and revenue, unlock private credit, and reduce delinquency. These effects, especially the … crowding-in of private credit, appear to reflect resolving uncertainty about repair. We do not find capital reallocation away …
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CLOs fund 65% of syndicated loans, theoretically insulating borrowers from bank and idiosyncratic investor shocks. However, concentrated capital and sticky relationships expose firms to idiosyncratic shocks to insurers, the largest CLO investors. We find that: 1) insurers experiencing favorable...
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separate firm-borrowing shocks from bank-supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose …
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. Theory offers competing hypotheses about how competition ought to influence firm entry and access to bank credit by mature …This paper tests how competition in local U.S. banking markets affects the market structure of non-financial sectors … entrants face greater difficulty gaining access to credit than in markets where banking is more competitive …
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A large empirical literature found that the correlation between insurance purchase and ex post realization of risk is often statistically insignificant or negative. This is inconsistent with the predictions from the classic models of insurance a la Akerlof (1970), Pauly (1974) and Rothschild and...
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I review a subset of the empirical tools available for competition analysis. The tools discussed are those needed for …
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insurance market), we study the impact of competition on premiums. We exploit variation in ratings-area-level competition …
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; they do not include the likely fee increases resulting from less competition among auditors. We calculate that the latter …
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