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show that the incidence of inefficient credit termination and subsequent firm liquidation is contingent on the borrower … inefficient credit decisions than monopoly relationship lending or homogeneous multiple banking, provided that the relationship …
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This paper studies optimal risk-taking and information disclosure by firms that obtain financing from both a 'relationship' bank and 'arm's-length' banks. We find that firm decisions are asymmetrically influenced by the degree of heterogeneity among banks: lowly-collateralized firms vary optimal...
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By using short-term direct finance firms of the highest credit quality expose themselves to rollover risk in the public … debt markets. Firms insure themselves against this risk by securing backup lines of credit from banks that they may use … of firm's publicly observable credit quality. Under plausible assumptions about the cost of bank borrowing the model …
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Reliable information on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is rare and costly for financial intermediaries. To compensate for this, relationship banking is often considered as the appropriate lending technique in the case of SMEs. In this paper we offer a theoretical model to analyze the...
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This paper analyzes banks' choice between lending to firms individually and sharing lending with other banks, when firms and banks are subject to moral hazard and monitoring is essential. Multiple-bank lending is optimal whenever the benefit of greater diversification in terms of higher...
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It has been argued that competing banks make inefficiently frequent use of collateralization in situations where they are better able to evaluate a project's risk than entrepreneurs. We study the bank's choice between screening and collateralization in a model where banks do not have this...
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macroprudential policy is represented by a convex dependence of bank capital requirements on the quantity of uncollateralized credit …
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We investigate how well social collateral does as an alternative to traditional physical collateral. We do so by studying cosigned loans - a borrower´s loan is backed by the personal guarantee of a cosigner. We use a regression discontinuity approach with data from South Indian bidding Roscas....
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lending in the sense that some socially productive firms are denied credit due to excessively high interest rate. …
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This paper contributes to the economics of financial institutions risk management by exploring how loan securitization affects their default risk, their systematic risk, and their stock prices. In a typical CDO transaction a bank retains through a first loss piece a very high proportion of the...
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