We develop a model in which collateral serves to protect creditors from the claims of competing creditors. We find that borrowers rely most on collateral when cash flow pledgeability is high, because this is when it is easy to take on new debt, diluting existing creditors. Creditors thus require...

Bernhardt, Koufopoulos, and Trigilia's (2019) note is set as a critique of our paper, Donaldson, Gromb, and Piacentino (2018). However, none of their results or arguments contradicts (or even alters) any of ours