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In this paper we consider a moral hazard problem between a creditworthy firm which needs funding and a bank. We first study under which conditions the firm does not obtain the loan. We then determine whether and how the intervention of an external financial institution can facilitate the access...
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Can central counterparty (CCP) clearing control counterparty risk in the presence of risk taking that can aggravate … such risk? When counterparty risk is not observable, I show that central clearing leads to higher collateral requirements … for two different reasons. Without collusion about risk taking, a CCP offering diversification of risk cannot selectively …
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Mortgage originators use credit score cutoff rules to determine how carefully to screen loan applicants. Recent research has hypothesized that these cutoff rules result from a securitization rule of thumb. Under this theory, an observed jump in defaults at the cutoff would imply that...
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Credit score cutoff rules result in very similar potential borrowers being treated differently by mortgage lenders. Recent research has used variation induced by these rules to investigate the connection between securitization and lender moral hazard in the recent financial crisis. However, the...
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A growing literature exploits credit score cutoff rules used by mortgage lenders as a natural experiment to estimate the moral hazard effect of securitization on underwriting. This research design is premised on the assumption that these cutoff rules are a response by lenders to securitization...
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The objective of this research is to examine the inter-bank network of clients as a channel for credit risk … transmission by groups of banks in Serbia characterized by different levels of credit risk (clusters). Two of the four observed …. The third group of banks (banks with high levels of credit risk) takes over the effects of systemic factors and transfers …
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In a simple model of currency crises caused by creditor coordination failure, we show that bailouts that reduce ex post inefficiency will sometimes create ex ante moral hazard but will sometimes enhance the incentives for governments to take preventative actions. This model helps us understand a...
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The theoretical aspects of three generation of financial crisis’ models are analyzed. On the basis of retrospective analysis of these models are determined the main causes than make the economic misbalance more profound and than cause a crisis. Проаналізовано теоретичні...
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We examine the association between carbon risk and future stock price crash risk and the moderating role of climate … change disclosures in this association using a sample of firms across the world. We find that carbon risk is positively … associated with future stock price crash risk, and firm-level climate-change disclosures attenuate the positive effect of carbon …
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What market features of Credit Defaults Swaps (CDS) exacerbate counterparty risk? To answer this, we formulate a model … the underlying asset and purchase CDS for risk management, while others buy these contracts purely for trading purposes …. We show that traders will choose to contract with less stable insurers, resulting in higher counterparty risk in this …
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