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more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the …
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We summarize and evaluate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's credit risk transfer (CRT) programs, which have been used since 2013 to shift a portion of credit risk on more than $1.8 trillion of mortgages to private sector investors. We argue that the CRT programs have been successful in reducing the...
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loans for a single global bank, we estimate within-borrower effects of enforcement law on expected recovery rates. We show … lower expected recovery rates that are more vulnerable to enforcement. Further, the bank compensates for lower expected …
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This study introduces a real option model to investigate how fiscal policy affects a representative firm's investment decision and to measure its welfare effects. On the one hand, the effects of financial instability on the optimal investment timing and on the probability of default are studied....
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In this article we use a stochastic model with one representative firm to study business tax policy under default risk. We will show that, for a given tax rate, the government has an incentive to reduce (increase) financial instability and default costs if its objective function is welfare (tax...
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corporate bank debt based on a cross-country study for the United Kingdom (U.K.) and Germany.1 To this end, implied credit risk …
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bank monitoring based on banks' requests for information on their existing borrowers and we investigate the effect of bank … exogenous variation in bank monitoring. Our identification strategy is supported by a theoretical model predicting that a … decrease in the tax rate improves bank incentives to monitor borrowers by increasing returns from lending. We find that bank …
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