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Securitization does not explain the reluctance among lenders to renegotiate home mortgages. We focus on seriously delinquent borrowers from 2005 through the third quarter of 2008 and show that servicers renegotiate similarly small fractions of securitized and portfolio loans. The results are...
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This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between money market uncertainty and unexpected deviations in retail interest rates in a sample of 10 OECD countries. We find that, with the exception of the US, money market uncertainty has only a modest impact on the conditional volatility of...
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If firms borrow working capital to finance production, then nominal interest rates have a direct influence on inflation dynamics, which appears to be the case empirically. However, interest rates may only partly mirror the cost of working capital. In this paper we explore the role of bank...
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lending behavior over the business cycle. The paper finds that state-owned banks may play a useful credit-smoothing role … whether this differential behavior is due to an explicit objective of stabilizing credit or to the presence of lazy public …
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manufacturing sectors in need of credit. We find that state- owned banks do not play a significant role in the development of …
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We draw on stylized facts from the finance literature to build a model where altering the relative costs of bank and bond financing changes the entire distribution of firm size, with implications for the aggregate capital stock, output, and welfare.
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Die Kreditlandschaft der Schweiz befindet sich in einem strukturellen Umbruch. Die Einführung risikogerechter Kreditkonditionen, teure Kreditprozesse, sowie ein hoher Anteil von Problempositionen fordern die Banken heraus...
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situation of the towns and cities and used this to compute a credit ranking for each town and city. We show that Basel II … banks also the impact of the credit ranking increased after Basel II. We also find significant effects of the type of the …
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: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more severe in less integrated prefectures, which saw larger decreases in … century, silk reeling emerged as the main export industry. The silk reeling industry depended heavily on credit for working … of silk filatures in 1895 as an instrument, we confirm that the post-1990 decline was worse in prefectures where credit …
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