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, which enables increased leverage and investment. In the absence of frictions in the securitization process, we show that the … be constrained inefficient due to the existence of a pecuniary externality that can result in over or under-investment …. We examine policies to correct over-investment and find that a leverage ratio restriction generates a Pareto improvement …
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narrow rescue investment. It concludes that the insertion of non-commercial behavior into what typically is an economic …
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external financial institution can facilitate the access to credit. In particular, we focus on the European Investment Bank …
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third party beneficiaries of the investment treaty/contract. It highlights the lack of expertise of arbitrators who are not …
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A recent literature shows how an increase in volatility reduces leverage. However, in order to explain pro-cyclical leverage it assumes that bad news increases volatility, that is, it assumes an inverse relationship between first and second moments of asset returns. This paper suggests a reason...
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We show how the timing of financial innovation might have contributed to the mortgage bubble and then to the crash of 2007-2009. We show why tranching and leverage first raised asset prices and why CDS lowered them afterwards. This may seem puzzling, since it implies that creating a derivative...
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A recent literature shows how an increase in volatility reduces leverage. However, in order to explain pro-cyclical leverage it assumes that bad news increases volatility, that is, it assumes an inverse relationship between first and second moments of asset returns. This paper suggests a reason...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121405
We show that cross-border financial flows arise when countries differ in their abilities to use assets as collateral. Financial integration is a way of sharing scarce collateral. The ability of one country to leverage and tranche assets provides attractive financial contracts to investors in the...
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The steady application of Quantitative Easing (QE) has been followed by big and non-monotonic effects on international asset prices and international capital flows. These are difficult to explain in conventional models, but arise naturally in a model with collateral. This paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906607
The steady application of Quantitative Easing (QE) has been followed by big and non-monotonic effects on international asset prices and international capital flows. These are difficult to explain in conventional models, but arise naturally in a model with collateral. This paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896238