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I examine the role of financial covenants in private debt contracts. I predict that financial covenants help limit ex ante uncertainty about the borrower's performance - the risk that the borrower will default on the loan - in the contract. I find that covenant inclusion is positively related to...
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This paper investigates the risk-taking channel of monetary policy on the asset side of banks' balance sheets. We use a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model to show that aggregate lending standards of U.S. banks, e.g. their collateral requirements for firms, are significantly...
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financial crisis, and the recent situation in Lithuania. In particular, growing international tension and deteriorating economic …
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question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
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hypothesis of safe asset shortage-induced excess credit booms and financial instability. As an alternative step forward from the …. Using the index, consecutive empirical exercises confirm the positive relationship of safe asset shortage-credit expansion …-2013 presents new evidence that the (high) level of private credit at a time of increasing safe asset shortage is the major …
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question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …
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